The masters who move deeply in the matrix of art fuel my passion. What I paint I cannot formulate, I cannot say. The painting is derived from itself, “one stroke gives birth to another: the dance of intelligence among the forms.*”

My mantra is light against dark, thick against thin, keep the four quadrants of the painting different, use a grid, make sure the interstices are as changed as the shapes they define, keep the painting flat in order to activate it and bring it to metaphor. Paint every stroke with love as if it’s my last stroke.

Usually I begin my paintings, by looking at the masters. My focus is not on the content, but on the underlying geometry. I’m looking for that magic amalgamation between the composition and the activation that keeps the viewer riveted on the work.

Often, my work melds representational and abstract elements. This comes out of my belief that,in a heartbeat, what catches our eye is not something specific but a passing glance or a gesture that intrigues us. It is that sensation one gets before actually knowing what one has seen that I want to linger.

The more art I see and the more I paint, the more the process reveals itself until finally the painting takes over. I paint and later on I decipher.

“Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It is very tiny - very tiny, content”- Willem DeKooning

*attributed to Knox Martin