My source of inspiration comes from the Natural World: Plant and Human forms. I use organic forms and abstract and articulate them into my own visual language, into "Organic Abstractions". I am a printmaker, my main process is mezzotint.
These Mezzotints which I continue to pull from nature and memory and reartiulate into my own visual language, have a sensual and yet foreboding quality. Can something be so beautiful it is uncomfortable to see, or so strange that it becomes beautiful? I try to find beauty in the ordinary to become extraordinary. I want my work to have a sensual and seductive quality. Ultimately I want my prints to have an essense of Beauty. No matter how strange the subject matter.

For me the challenge of creating these mezzotints is an ongoing investigation of the physical and formal properties of the process itself. Mezzotint is an intaglio printmaking process in which the entire surface of a copper plate is roughened with a tool called a rocker. The pitted-plate when inked yeilds very rich blacks/colors. Polishing and burnishing the roughened plate creates values from dark to light. The mezzotint process has a very rich and seductive quality that lends to my imagery. The quality is both physical and sensual, which is very appealing to me as an image maker and printmaker. It seems impossible to get away from the process. By taking from my memory and nature I hope to convey something other than the formal.