Over the years my paintings have evolved from complex land- and cityscapes to a voyeur’s street gallery of arcane scenes I witness in an urban environment. This can be spontaneous, from the quirky lady with huge floppy flowered sunhat striding across the street balancing an oversized handbag, to simple, as a street messenger swathed in scarves skates down a bustling avenue. I’m passionate about capturing the simple psychology of everyday people and urban culture. Often I envision a stage where my wacky “actors” gaze outward from every corner of society and excite the characters and styles behind my latest paintings. All of my images are created using a Meglip glazing technique popular with Flemish and Renaissance. This style of painting incorporates small amounts of color in clear glazes washed over selected areas of the artwork, a technique that enables me to capture a brilliance of tone and luminosity of color which is the beauty intrinsic to working in this medium. Primarily I’m working from Polaroids I took while living in large cities, where the oddities of color offered by this photo format, combined with the old school glazing technique, ignite a fluid hybrid of playful color, a gift that keeps me entertained and hopefully keeps the viewer in the act as well.