It’s exciting that by shifting to abstraction drawing recedes allowing pure paint to takeover and process to show. My floral paintings consider the same elements as when painting an abstract painting. I putpaint on the canvas and push and pull with the paint: addressing value, color, shape and markmaking until I achieve a balance and sense of space that feels complete. Though making a“representational” painting, it is not just about the hydrangeas or roses—but a morecomplicated balance of what I see and feel within, in combination of what the viewer sees andfeels. This balance is constantly in motion. Underneath the finished painting, there are a myriadof paintings the viewer doesn’t see. All of those buried layers represent equations that werewrestled with before I moved on. How do I know when a painting is done? I don’t. I just have to stop.