Vocation starts with your special gift for a mode of expression. But it cannot develop without tenacity and a consistent striving to obtain mastery of your specific tools and techniques. This is your energy. To these essential elements you add your own personal history, your mark, your sensitivity and temperament. Perhaps my conflicting feelings about life are also reflected in my art by the contrast between the violence of the idea and the tenderness of the rendering. I think that it is my love of music that makes my paintings harmonious.I am always searching for a perfect structure and rhythm. To me, harmony is critical in composition and color, even where my conception is to convey revolt.