It amazes me that pouring paint produces forms we recognize, like ducks, fish, plants, continents, cells, and the cosmos.
This painting style is about "meeting" with nature. When we watch how the water is moving on the canvas we can decide how much paint to pour.
We quickly become aware of how much energy we are putting into the system and feel what effects we are having together.
When we try, considering the actions and ourselves at once, we make beauty.

In addition to more traditional pieces like this oil painting of my girlfriend’s horses I just finished, I like to build systems into which energies are applied.
For this show I brought my 8 foot table with 144 bolts which can be adjusted up and down to deform the surface of the masonite boards I paint on.
Hanging large weights off the bottom of the “canvas” creates depressions which conduct the water and paint mixture into two “black holes” on the surface.

The wave is an iconic shape for a painting but I also find the wave or pulse is the most fundamental component of life. These peristaltic rhythms show themselves in the texture of dunes formed as energy moves.

While it is fantastic that this painting looks like a bird, it was not the intended outcome. The eye was a dry spot which formed during the pour and the white of the beak is where the flow slowed and pooled, dropping the sediment before draining.