The smallest things are often what connect us as human beings.  The calming presence of a sibling or friend, moments of anticipation, tenderness, and personal triumph are realities we share.  These paintings are based on memories, both personal and borrowed.  They are an attempt to explore a collective human experience.  Details and features remain ambiguous inviting the viewer to seek something of themselves in the work.  The figure (human and animal) has provided a generous vehicle for color, form and surface to evolve.  Paint and wax are layered, dripped and scraped to create a sense that the subject is still emerging…still ‘becoming’.