Painting and printmaking are not ways to externalize ideas already formed. They are ways to find new forms and ideas. Different tools and materials, acrylics on wood panels or metal plates scratched with a drypoint needle, lead me to different forms and ideas.

 

Working with acrylic paint, drypoint, gouache, and oil pastel, I am aware of much that has been done with these materials. It is at one and the same time a very personal struggle within my own situation, and a conversation with a rich diversity of visual art traditions.

 

My wife and I moved from New Jersey to New Mexico in 1987. The influence of that move goes beyond the marvelous landscape: involvement with new people, projects, and cultural traditions has somehow both challenged and clarified my thinking about what I am part of.

 

I hope that viewers will find meaning in my work and thereby share in my attempt to grasp or at least reach some small truce with what’s going on.