Figurative Paintings

How to integrate color theory, move from paper to canvas, without losing the fleshiness and physicality central to working in charcoal — that is the challenge I give myself in these works.

Courses at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) with Jo Hay and Forrest Williams helped me begin to imagine what that might look like.

I have always liked Aristotle’s idea that form cannot be separated from matter, except as an act of intellect, and it was only when I began studying Hans Hoffman’s push/pull method with Laura Shabott, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, that I began to understand how it might be expressed visually.