Over the years my studio practice has evolved as message influenced medium and conversely, medium influenced message. I have continued to search, explore, examine, and combine ideas in various ways, successfully and not. My art making experience has been organic and wonderfully unexpected. However, my color mixing has been the one factor in my studio practice that has been unfailingly consistent. —-My method for mixing color for each new painting consists of two to three days of inspiration, self-loathing and eureka.