To me color is the highest and most subjective element of painting, but the real subject matter of my work is its emotional content. A successfully executed painting must reach further - beyond the abstract or representational - into an intimate spirituality brought about by an individual way of seeing things. In that unique expression is something that relates to the "human experience" despite the passage of time. It is why we can look at a hundred-year old painting and say "Yes, I know this." This has nothing to do with trends or commercialism and everything to do with art.