My work is about color and is created using oilsticks on paper, working from memory sublimated by on-site sketches. I use the seduction of color and the narrative element to entice the viewer into my abstraction of compostion, form and pictorial space. The work is a balance between the abstract formal issues of color, form and composition and narrative story telling equally balancing between painting and drawing. I frequently use this method of image making to create evokative portraits of individuals, families , and cherished pets set in the arena of everyday life. I find art making to be a joyful celebratory process and I hope that the veiwer has the same joy in my art.