"Painting is something I am always doing, always have done. I am drawn to the paint itself, the lushness of the colors, the plasticity of the materials, the richness of the mediums. The goal of my most recent work, the epicycle series, is to present in abstract language a dilemma of human intimacy. I wish to show the extent to which two people can be close in terms of proximity but remain forever separate. The space between forms becomes important"