Making Connections

Art is all about making connections. Between your hand and your heart, your eyes and your impulses, the different shapes already on canvas, and the different shapes still announcing themselves. It's fun to play with these connections. To take previously unrelated parts and connect them and to break old connections by turning canvases to reveal new possibilities. It's a lot like every day life: turning corners, seeking the bigger picture, finding new visions...islands, 4 canvases total size 1m x 1,10m, acrlyics and paper on canvas, august 2011

The Art of Finishing a Sentence

The other day, I was talking to someone about how art is a way to order thoughts, emotions and experiences. Sometimes, the ordering part of that process becomes very apparent. The series above consists of a collection of works that were originally separate and unfinished. Like sentences on their own, I couldn't finish them until I started to connect them and a bigger picture emerged.
Totempolar Connections, 5 canvases of 30 x 40cm, acrylics, August2011