My work is about improvisation, chance and intuitive risk-taking. Architecture and structure are central to my visual vocabulary. My process involves building surfaces with layers of oil paint, pouring and scraping through layers to reveal unexpected color relationships, textures, and reflective light. My recent paintings focus on the unstable times we are experiencing – alienation and environmental chaos.

Some of my work repurposes found cardboard boxes, creating relief artworks that straddle sculpture and painting. Cardboard packing crates have long fascinated me. I began painting on them in the late 1970s. I am drawn to the restful geometry of the manufactured folds and the stories in the preexisting marks. This raw, soft material gives me permission to run the paint over edges, juxtaposing intense, sensuous paint with neutral cardboard tones. Decisions often spring from the dents, staples and labels.