My interest in painting has remained in the theatrical use of psychological space and a search for poetic simplicity. I continue to develop themes of intimate relationships and emotional states, finding and articulating the essence of a moment or mood through the medium of a particular shape, contour or tone.
The figures, while abstracted, sometimes translucent and ephemeral, shift between spatial planes and yet, at the same time, remain sculptural and monumental. Perhaps this is where my influences of early 20th century Italian art such as Marini, Martini, Sironi and Carra (who addressed the fate of human existence and explored the inner world in various ways) and the later American abstract painters such as Pollock and Rothko, become evident.