My creative vision is indebted to the research and reading I do to teach painting, ancient through contemporary art history, art theory and color theory. Most influential in my painting practice is 20th Century Western abstraction, now acknowledged as a feminist-queer painting genre. To me, particularly impressive are Spiritual Abstraction, Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Impressionism, Post-minimalism, Pattern & Decoration, and New Image Painting movements. I admire works by thousands of artists, especially contemporary ones including af Klint, Bonnard, Delaunay, Kahlo, Frankenthaler, Mitchell, Beuys, Thomas, Rauschenberg, Hesse, Mendieta, Twombly, Guston, Murray, Rothenberg and others. Philosophically I am positioned within phenomenology and feminist aesthetics. Methodologically I work as an autotheorist. To execute I use a combination of automatist, gestural, and geometric abstraction techniques. And materially I begin a group of paintings with acrylics on gessoed canvases or linens that I sometimes complete in oils. All of this impacts the concept and the look of a given series.