I started painting at the age of three. Now at sixty, time seems an unfair limitation when thinking of the unending succession of images racing through my mind.

I have always felt in harmony with the intimacy of small-scaled works, never underestimating or limiting their tremendous power. My paintings are statements somewhere between reality and imagination, between spontaneous and intellectual control. I often combine several separate observations into a single image, enjoying the relationships between patterns, shapes, cultures.

Small scaled work enhances the importance of maintaining an unfragmented unity of space. Cropping creates a self-enclosed curious tension, complete and contained rather than an artificial limitation. In small works I especially value technical simplicity, directness of medium, uncluttered representation, and elimination of unessential elements. There is a heightened concept of seeing, a sense of spilled truth. The success or failure of each painting depends on my decisions, abilities, challenging me on all levels, using all my capabilities, pushing me into previously unexplored areas.

Each painting feels like a new beginning, provides a sense of excitement as if on the verge of discovery, a curiosity of the unconscious and the predictable. Reality is so abstract, with so many versions, different interpretations, integration of many perspectives, a sort of echo system. My paintings deal with expectancy, growth as well as decay, hints of forces beyond control, the transient nature of life. Often I am driven by impulses I cannot define, painting with my whole being, a life long commitment. When we declare for ourselves what we want in life, it becomes a foundation for what we create.