boxcars and highways | 8"x8" | oil on linen panel

In engineering when you are trying to solve a complicated problem, you begin by defining your questions carefully and then looking at what you know about the specific system and what you know about how systems behave generally. Experiments are critical to the resolution process.

In oil painting, I knew that for many years I have been most attracted to painterly and abstract works. At the beginning of this year, I began my own exploration of abstraction. My question is: how can I paint in oil an abstract picture which represents what I feel when I see a great abstract work and incorporates what I know about color, line, composition ... the formal elements of painting?