The Art Adventure
Here's how the art is born:
My paintings begin with ideas and images that arise in meditation, dreams, or out of nowhere 
via some imaginative impishness while my rational attention is focused on the day-to-day mundane. My brush chooses the first color and stroke instinctively, and whatever plan I began with I attempt sto set aside so I can look on, curious about where each stroke might lead. At its best, the process is an exercise in flow—painting for the sake of painting instead of focusing on the particular result, letting image after image create itself without getting in the way.
I may not recognize what the succession of color choices and brushstrokes adds up to until a painting is nearly done. In that "ah hah!" moment, I see a first layer of whatever it's trying to show me. More layers emerge in time. So while I paint, the challenge is to allow myself to keep letting the images shift and dance instead of locking them down—to keep following the energy of the paint even at the risk of "ruining" a painting.
It's an intimate process. The majority of finished pieces are like visual journals, private records of a singular exploration. The few that go public are those that—for want of a better way to put it—agree to.
The gicleé prints beautifully capture the intensity of the original tempera with an acid-free enhanced matte paper that holds brights exceptionally well. Each print is individually signed and can be purchased in sizes ranging from 8 x 10 images to 20 x 26 (full size) through the online Gratitude Gallery and the gallery at Fine Balance Imaging Studios.
Besides tempera and watercolor paintings, prints, and pastels on paper, I convert wooden boxes into eye-catching, useful and beautiful containers, mixed media compositions, and frames for my poems. 
I also turn moonsnail shells into luminescent gems.
The last major category of work involves paintings on hardwood, in which I experiment with light and grain using transparent acrylics and iridescent acrylics and watercolors. The results can be dazzling, and the process deeply meditative.
Wherever possible I construct my mixed media pieces from cast-off materials, be they computer chips or scraps of leftover hardwoods from a master cabinet maker here on the island.