« I stop. A configuration becomes a motif. I am moved and urged to render it because it will never happen again. The bathing light gives the tone to a dramatic unity. Vision precedes words and as I work, drawing or painting, my attempt is to pursue with accuracy and spontaneity what I saw arising. My strokes are percussive and they create a beating world.

I have to bring together layers of time as the light changes, while surrendering to the emerging world on my surface. The luminous effect ignites movement and the whole picture is colors and values fused — incarnating and holding together the forces I see. It is the life forces and energies manifested in the world and through the character of protagonists that comes to me. In a particular arrangement of brown leaves, in the strength of a growing tree, in an overarching setting sun, old experiences are reborn and helping me to live as I become more intimate with things. »