I paint in the tradition of the Fauves, using heavily saturated hues and bold, energetic brushstrokes. My art is about recovery, rebuilding, and re-creating. Like the explosions and shatterings that many of us experience in life, the pointillism in my paintings is a metaphor for the process of internal rebuilding. I am a studio painter. I take an image, usually a photograph or a sketch from a photograph. The original image is only a springboard into an inner vision. I paint in layers, and the process, much like recovery, is laborious. Some days I can only put down so many dots, or brush strokes, and I need to move onto another piece. Other days the wind seems to be at my back, and I can cover a lot of canvas.