The collage gallery contains work that have been deconstructed and reconstructed; thus recycled.  The media is mostly rebirthed from studies of the figure or abstract shapes begun with watercolor on 140 lb. paper. They are stitched, pasted, held together somehow, to produce an image I can live with.

The painting gallery contains brushwork; but collage sits on the paper, canvas or wood with a firmer resolve.

The assemblage gallery is a series of work with umbrella detritus and other recycleable media.  I am interested in finding a marriage of elements our society takes for granted. These parts of everyday existence will no doubt end up in landfills.  The blending and remodeling of such insigificant elements when they have served their purpose finds a new beginning in imagination.

All in all, the thrust of my work is about finding what I did not know I would find, and working within the measure of my find.  It is always about balance and the respect for the wonders of what the environment, be it my mind or the detergent container, that inspires me to reinvent somthing I have never seen before.