Dos Palos, 16 x 30”

Paicines, 10 x 22”

Helm, 14 x 14”

Huron, 12 x 12”

Lanare, 12 x 12”

Burrel, 14 x 14”

Five Points (detail), 18 x 18”

All work is oil on aluminum panel, 2007

Statement

After exploring gold leaf and metallic pigments with oil paint on canvas and wood for the better part of a decade, I began in 2005 to use anodized aluminum as my painting surface. The first piece on metal incorporated my last technique, layers of powdered mica glazed with oil paint to produce an abstract work with a pristine surface.  After working for years to achieve this surface, it was now a given, and my interest shifted to the question of how to use this beautiful silver panel in a new way.  I found that the application of paint on the metal created a wonderful drawing environment.

My newest work is a second suite of paintings in the series “Along the Five”, generated from imagination influenced by countless trips between Oakland and Los Angeles along Highway Five, fields, orchards, stands of trees, rushing by.