My practice encompasses portrait motifs created by using a combination of oil painting methods to construct amorphic or abstract forms. The purpose of these methods is to emphasize the relationship between transparent and opaque paint layers by using a variety of techniques including decalcomania.
Using such techniques, I tend to lay my painting surfaces flat during the early stages of execution, and then I build the exterior by moving the surface upright. For some of the paintings, I work in a reductive manner by scrapping, rubbing, gauging, wiping, or dissolving semi-dry applications. This process can become time-consuming in the sense of waiting between drying times of each paint film and allowing each phase to influence the next step. Some aspects of this rely heavily on intuition and spontaneity.
