Artist Summary

I have always found the city of Zürich incredibly serene with a stillness, almost a purity, that seems hard to match almost anywhere else in the world. I have heard some people say that this same stillness can make it seem cold and unfriendly, but I don’t agree. The warmth is everywhere around you, giving off a subtle intensity that makes you even more aware of everything that is there to be seen.

Within the Migros Contemporary Art Museum on a day with very few visitors, I found myself inside painting the blue colors, tones, and shades of the sky; the yellows and golds from the November sun; and reds of some the objects on display in the museum. It was almost as if on this day the city brought the colors in through the glazed windows, bounced them off the gray linoleum floor and white walls and then and onto my drawing hand, one by one. I was there not just as a painter, but a translator—a kind of interpreter, transforming dozens of messages being whispered through the windows and everything around me, into shapes and forms by which I was able to see, even more intensely, the warmth and beauty of the city.