My paintings investigate the ubiquitous patterns of shadow and light that we all experience daily, but rarely stop to notice. I record source images photographically, in sketches and sometimes by working with my painting support directly against the shadowed surface that inspires me. Later in the studio I add and subtract from the sources distilling information into a new image.

Physically the works consist of wooden or canvas panels painted in a layered process of oil over acrylic, or they employ a variety of water-media on paper. I introduce chance elements produced by layers of over-sprayed and poured passages of paint that alternate with more controlled layers. My intent is to explore the random phenomena of light and shadow as well as the philosophy of Illusionism, the notion that the world around us is an immaterial and fleeting product of our Imperfect senses.

I find my subjects everywhere. There are patterns of light and shadow on every kind of surface. Often we develop a blindness to the ordinary. I want to examine these patterns that are paradoxically commonplace and yet unregistered, unseen.

Captured patterns of shadow, separated from the objects that cast them, allow me to examine the illusory, often deceptive, nature of painting, and to play with nonlinear story-telling. As light and atmospheric conditions shift my source patterns morph, move and change. They are studies in the fourth dimension, time. They distort and hint at their objective origins. My challenge lies in attempting to capture their mysterious ephemeral natures in films of paint.