Picasso famously said, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

What I believe he meant by that was he had to work every day of his life to overcome his training – to forget everything he learned - in order to return to the uninhibited, spontaneous, impulsive way he made art as a very young child. That is the way I try to paint. And I have a lot less to unlearn than Picasso did!

I try to work quickly and with abandon, resisting the urge to judge my progress too soon. Ideas and marks are put down then often painted over, only to have new ones made in their place. Mistakes or changes of mind are often frantically scribbled out and reconsidered. I want to invite the viewer to see and share the entire history of the painting’s birth. Warts and all.