During the winter of 2005-2006, I painted a number of small paintings in an abstract and experiential style. I call this experiential because the painting evolves during the experience of its painting. There is no sketch to go from. Nor is there truly a preconceived idea. There is just a mood and then there is a decision to make a background color and then there is an impetus to strike the canvas with paint. The process, and the painting, evolves as the experience of painting it progresses. Choices are dependent upon what has gone before, and very probably reflect the circumstances of my present life, extending back some indeterminate time, but certainly of the moment of the now and the moments leading directly up to the now. Thus it is experiential.

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