A sense of heightened attentiveness as well as insight gained from seeing the world framed in a different way has made India a regular site of return to renourish my life and my work.

My paintings portray vignettes of life that are both specific and enigmatic, considerate of the contradictions of everyday life, how the sacred and mundane can occupy the same space in the same moment.

In their solitude and muteness, they are perhaps a mirror of my own interior world when I am in India, an extended dialogue carried on in the midst of languages I do not comprehend. The transforming loneliness of travel bestows the proper condition for my discovery of the accidental beauty of the ordinary. I have found inspiration in the following quotations from an 18th century French priest and a distinguished Indian artist and educator.

There is no one in the world who cannot arrive without difficulty at the most eminent perfection by fulfilling with love, obscure and common duties.
.....—J.P. de Caussade

To save the common from being too common, to save the uncommon from being too precious. To bring some strangeness to the sundry act or bring a touch of revelation to sordid fact.
.....—K.G. Subramanyan