As an abstract artist, I have always held color paramount. I want the color to be immersive. I want to swim in the color, live in its expanse. The relationships between colors, and increasingly, the way colors meet at the edge of shapes is incredibly important. Finding a balance across the whole field is a constant risk and challenge. I am continually inspired by the natural world and my surroundings. Summer yellow peaches, fuchsia peonies, golden marigolds, the blues of water from crystal azure to a dark lake. Each painting’s structure and the shapes within are drawn from things that are unfiltered, uncontrived and organic. I take cracks in a sidewalk, lines from my young children’s drawings, the spokes of fallen pine needles, the lines of pollen that remain after a heavy spring rain and reimagine them as ways to divide space on the canvas. The work reflects an honest emotional experience, each a forged consonance amidst imperfection.