My work is best described as LyricalAbstraction. Expression of the artist's emotion is the primary intention. Although much of abstract art focuses on emotional content - lyrical abstraction is infused with and conveys a sense of a larger spiritual outlook. The desire is to communicate concepts, thoughts, ideas and emotions abstractly - to discover and explore an elemental beingness within and beyond our everyday reality. I find that there is a power within each painting. A feeling of essence is evoked in a manner which is graceful and lyrical - often creating a feeling of poetry on canvas. Each is infused with a mystic sensibility as dimensions stretch to infinity and reach for a connection to a higher, more esoteric world.

"Lyrical abstraction is not a formal, specific school of art. It is a term art critics have invented to differentiate abstract works which present ideation and imagery versus those with no relation to the natural world or pictorial allusion. There is a balanced, aesthetic elegance one can immediately sense in lyrical abstraction. Such works present viewpoints and convictions, but are rarely sentimental; they may be lively and animated or subtle and soothing, but above all, are charged with content."

My paintings are concept centered: often presented in a series - exploring a theme deeply, searching for variant nuances and resonant chords. My aim is to ignite something in the viewer that sets off a resonance within, invites their attention and draws them inward -to join in a journey of discovery.

"Artists seek to overcome the boundaries of life, to gain a kind of eternity in their creative work amid the ephemeral days we humans pass together."
Rollo May

Quotation from Lyrical Abstraction as an Artform, by Michael Cook