My journey in painting is fully intertwined with my journey in Shambhala Buddhism. Just as the practice of meditation is an experience of opening to now-ness and to an appreciation of artfulness in one's life, each moment of painting can be an open and fresh experience, like the first stroke on a blank canvas.
The current body of work began in 1989. After a long period expressing the richness of the natural world in landscapes, seascapes, and koi paintings, I leapt into abstraction by auspicious coincidence. Having found various shapes of galvanized metal, I soon began playing on their surfaces, using paint and various mixed media: glass microspheres, diamond dust, etc.
Experiments on these and later on 12-inch stainless steel discs, brought me to the Mirror Paintings, a body of abstraction concerned with space, light, and pure perception. They are mirrors in the sense that the absolute is a mirror of vastness out of which everything arises. They are spacious and subtle, demanding patience while inviting a fresh outlook. The quality of light and one's movement about their space is most integral to experiencing them.
I began a series of sculptural works in 2000. Many of these are floor pieces manifesting mostly from found materials, often including large glass lenses. Often, they are three-dimensional expressions of the mirror paintings.
