New solo show just confirmed for November 22, 2014 -January 3 2015 Herringer Kiss Gallery. Thank you Deborah for the opportunity. Excited to see the new series up for the first time.

 The one thing I have always done is look.
For hours or days on end without a single brush mark. I don't even have to be in front of my painting. It is always on my mind. I am always thinking about and worrying about my next move or my next painting. Not that I plan or that I am so careful with my next step but I do think and look as the painting slows down. At the beginning there is a getting to know the painting time, where I find my way through the painting by painting. Building up and ripping down. Then there is a time where you get down to the last ten brush marks that can be very slow. Seeing when it is done. I paint them until I get them right. What is right? Well right for me has always been a place where I feel that I can leave the painting. It is never about a certain look or style. Because sometimes the best place to leave a painting is where it is uncomfortably right. A place that is not familiar but a place that allows you to move on to the next one without looking back.  



                                       
New painting in progress June 2014

Whew... tough one today. Half way through my new painting and it is a hard one that is for sure. I am working a totally different way now. Cutting small pieces and putting them together. Seeing the image come and go. Back and forth. Trying to fight my way out of the painting. A lot of fun but what a mental workout.