"Play"
Watercolor, 10.25" x 26"

Corporate Collection of
Nazaire & Company, Inc.
New York, NY

This image was one of my first abstract paintings.  I crossed the boundaries of realism to venture into a dialogue with vivid color using design.  This painting is a “play” with the vocabulary of irregular and geometric shapes, color, and emotion.  Even though these shapes were at first carefully drawn out and then painted, the need for a more spontaneous expression was met by using very wet pigments.  The motion of the paint within the orchestrated shapes set the stage for later work that found the security of a predetermined drawing unnecessary.