ABSTRACT ART shopping for a specific environment, be it home or office, yacht or lake property is usually going to be an emotional transaction.  Thinking about the work while shopping,  you may be surprised to learn that the actual artwork is an emotional transaction also - an exchange between my conscious and subconscious brain, my love of the craft, my passion for rendering juicy images concocted with oil paints, cold wax, brushes and other tools, and my coaxing a surface to allow the painted image to emerge. Some paintings take a few hours, some a few weeks and some even months. I don't calculate an hourly wage as the hours are immaterial when I'm painting.  However, if and when you purchase one of my pieces, the work comes with a full package of imagination, energy, passion, resilience, faith and experience and is fully reflective of the ebullient joy and thanksgiving for my gift of life as an artist.   I've been painting and exhibiting in acrylic, encaustic and oil mediums for twenty-five years. My work is in private collections in WA, OR, ID, CA, TX, OK, MN, CO, NY, NJ, CT, VA, NC, Canada and the UK. I have one collaborative piece living in the permanent collection of MOAH in Lancaster, CA.