ARTIST’S STATEMENT

With my paintings, I celebrate the sensual pleasure of dancing with colour, light and form.  They reflect both the intensity of the light in my native Argentina and the joy of the light in my new country, Australia.  And there is much joy in the bold and vibrant pigments which I used for this work, and which are the building blocks for my expression of my inner impulses and dreams.  Over these 'images' of dreams and impulses I lay layers of transparent glazes until the result is as complex and deep as the imagination and psyche itself.  

My paintings are very much made in the moment.  They are not made to fit some intellectual notion of how a painting should be constructed; they are an expression of my mood, my temperament and my outlook on life.  And yet, my study of the technique of the Old Masters at the Charlie Sheard Studio School informs everything I do.  The result rides on the contradiction between discipline and freedom.  I like to reveal the linen on which the paintings are constructed: it shows through like a glimpse of where we begin and where we end up.