Internationally oriented, I have lived and worked in many countries and have resided
in Germany since 1984. I like to create highly colorful abstract and semi-abstract paintings
that stimulate the senses and--because of their ambiguity--challenge one's perceptual
structures. This often involves juxtaposing the linear with the painterly, the deliberate with the
intuitive and the accidental with the natural. My emphasis on color can be partly attributed to the influence of such artists as
Lichtenstein, Wesselmann, Hockney, Twombley, Zuniak, Richter and Basquiat,
along with the color theory of...more