I am a self-taught artist, led to painting from garden making; led to glass initially by its luminosity; lured to stay by the processes I discovered there.  Like Wolf Kahn, a painter I greatly admire, "I don’t have ideas; I have appetites."

Those appetites come first from nature and its boundless offerings on any simple walk on a beach or in the forest. The rest from tasting the works of many people, places and times in all manner of materials. I can no longer tell, nor do I care, which are most influential.

To begin a painting is like beginning a good journey. Bring all that you know and let the trip take you. 

April 2004

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