Artist’s Statement
"Painting is a personal emotional experience. The only individual I can bring to the creative process is me. Whether I like it or not I can only do it my way. Because I am constitutionally unable to simply let things happen, my abstracts are totally planned. "
"It frequently takes days of trial and error to construct a satisfying composition. I push bits of color, assorted textures, different shapes and values around and around until something deep inside of me says “Yes”. "
"Then and only then do I begin to paint. When the blank white paper has been covered with pigment, it is time for a critical review. Once again emotion or mood or intuition dictates the changes necessary to bring the disparate pieces into a unified whole."
"If Lady Luck is kind and the painting is successful, it will arouse a similar response in the viewer."
- hcd