My ambition with my paintings is to use symbolic shapes and colors to express my deepest emotions and passion for life. This leads me to apply paint to the canvas in unusual ways -- by pouring, splashing, dripping, and scratching. My paintings also require layers upon layers of paint to create a sensuous and turbulent surface texture that is as vital and as complicated as life itself. I use color to allure an imaginitive and subtle spatial elusiveness. My abstract expressions are the product of many days of working and reworking.

I have attended painting classes at the University of North Carolina with Professor Kimowan McLain and with Jane Filer at the Carrboro Art Center. In the past several years I have shown my work in several regional exhibitions such as Bill Hester Fine Arts (Chapel Hill), Sizl Gallery (Carrboro), Main Street Gallery (Carrboro), Side Street Gallery (Pittsboro), Living Well Center and Art Gallery (Greensboro), Lee Hansley Gallery (Raleigh), April and George Art Gallery and Wine Bar (Raleigh), Visual Art Exchange (Raleigh), Vignettes Gallery (Raleigh), Durham Art Guild (Durham), Studio 91 (Chapel Hill), Sky Art Gallery (Aberdeen), and The Gallery (Beaufort, SC). My paintings have also been shown in the Saladelia Café (Durham), Four Square Restaurant (Durham), Provence Restaurant (Carrboro), Panzanella Restaurant (Carrboro), Cato Research (Durham), Jennings Co. (Chapel Hill), and NCIDEA (Durham).

In April 2004, I was presented with the Phyllis and Tyler Bennett Award at the Fine Arts League of Cary 10th Annual Juried Art Exhibition for my painting “Pain in Spain”. I was also invited and participated in The Cedar Pass Artist Colony that took place in April of 2005 in North Carolina with American, European, and Asian artists. In November 2005, Judy Chicago selected my painting “Building Lights on Past Pains” for the 51st Annual Juried Art Show of the Durham Art Guild. In July 2006 I was invited and painted at the International Artists Colony of Kicevo, Macedonia. Juror Petah Coyne, international exhibited artist, selected my painting "Floating Nothingness" for the 52nd Annual Juried Show of the Durham Art Guild (2006) and awarded the Third Prize to that painting. In May and June 2007 I attended the Vermont Studio Center as an artist in residence. Barkley Hendricks selected my painting "Snake Charmer's Playground" for the 53rd Annual Juried Show of the Durham Art Guild (2007) and awarded the Honorable Mention to that painting. Dr. Lawrence J. Wheeler, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, selected "The Impressions of Forestal Dreams" for the 2008 North Carolina Artists Exhibition.

Today, many of my paintings belong to private collections throughout the U.S., Europe, Israel, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. Cato Research Inc., Health Planning Source, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Starbucks Coffee Co. have acquired several of my paintings for their corporate collections.