Creating art is not unlike living your life — if you make a mess if you make a mistake, well, then you must deal with it. You have choices: change it, work with what you have, what you have done.

 

Some of the most beautiful art comes out of the most painful places in people’s lives. Your art is not a product of any one studio time; it is an evolution of many years of experience.

 

Each mark I make on my surface, each brushstroke or color I put on is the beginning of that artwork’s life. Its birth, so to speak.

 

Even if the beginning is a little rocky, and I’m not liking it, I just work over what I have done. I don’t erase or obliterate the beginning because I believe that those early marks are the foundation for the painting that is about to be.  

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