I work on paper and on panels with a variety of media -- acrylic, crayon, gouache, graphite and Xerox transfer - to create richly colored, layered and patterned surfaces. Using a combination of diverse images, I employ forms with multiple associations to suggest a constellation of meanings. These include geometric figures, organic forms derived from natural structures and forms that originate in the artifacts and architectures of antiquity. I have a longstanding interest in the structural systems of language (musical, mathematical and spoken), nature (visible and molecular) and culture (architecture and artefact). I’ve always loved Chinese art and some of the vessel forms I’ve worked with derive from Chinese ceramics and architecture.

I've recently moved back to Massachusetts after living in London for seven years. In the U.K., I was struck by the visible presence of history in the physical landscape. In 2001, I was awarded a residency at Brison’s Veor in St. Just, Cornwall, where old mineshafts and Neolithic burial mounds and stone circles are common features in the landscape. In 2005, I was a resident at Fundacion Valparaiso in Mojacar, Spain, whose steep, narrow streets and vernacular architecture echo its Moorish past. This sense of history informs my work of the last few years. In many-layered acrylic paintings built up with brushwork and spattering, I’m exploring ideas about accretion, fragmentation and historical layering. By partially obscuring images with paint and revealing others by sanding down the surface between layers, I’m trying to create a visual expression of the passage of time.