With an abscence of nearly 30 years as a practicing artist where creative energies were always focused elsewhere, the need to make art became so intense that it could no longer be denied. Could the buried ability that lay dormant all these years be unearthed? A good friend who is a well known painter encouraged with the assurance of, "You have not wasted nor lost 30 years. You have had 30 years of input and it has to output somewhere."
As a dealer in fine arts, an intimate connection to the action of making art had remained although obviously from another view point. Frequent travels in Europe as well as in North America helped build a visual library thus expanding the visual vocabulary.
Early influences in a past abstraction that were derived from landscapes are elements that today come forth in the new work. Light and shadow dictate a sense of space which define it as well as dissolve it. The areas of ambiguity create a sense of mystery as well as a tactile sensuousness in the forms.