It is said that art is a form of communication and as such I use art as a way to communicate with my subconscious, a method of self exploration. I find this type of non-verbal communication allows a greater flow of emotions to express that is which is unspoken. The psychotherapist Carl Jung believed that dreams sent messages from the soul. My last series 'Dreamings' were inspired by my dreams. The use of abstraction works well to depict the often jumbled images of dreams. My current series 'Journey' is patterned after Joseph Campbell's 'Hero's Journey'. It is a mythic journey which encompasses aspects of my previous works, where dreams represent the region of the dark subconscious and serves as both challenge and path to the goal of self-knowledge. My recent studies in abstraction follows the path of the California Bay Area Figurative art movement, recently studying 'Figurative Abstraction' under Ursula O'Farrell , one of the third generation of Bay Area Figurative artists.