The content of a painting or drawing is inseparable from the craft of making it; meaning is lodged in the marks left behind by the implements of art-making. There is an ongoing tension between fidelity to the subject vs. the painting itself, which is the end-product of a dialogue between subject, material, artist, and picture plane.

I work most happily in oil, but occasionally find it useful to fight it out with watercolors, and I also draw. A lot. While primarily a representational artist, I consider the distinction between form and formlessness to be relatively insignificant compared to the emotional resonance that results from the conscious manipulation of plastic space.