After working on the sculpture project for over a year, I was ready to start painting again.

I had been painting what I saw for about three decades and was eager to work on a different kind of painting. I wanted to paint what I saw in my mind—compositions created by color relationships and the placement of shapes in space. It was a process that took some time to evolve.

I was finally able to use all I had learned over the years. Color relationships, what they did to the space within the confines of the painting, and bits and pieces of realism were layered into an abstract “reality” of my own.

I often felt as though I was composing music visually. That was my goal, and I kept building on that mindset.

This work, “Compositions,” is intended to be meditative, drawing the viewer in with its colors and layering of shapes.