My process is intuitive. Canvas on the floor, apply gel medium, pumice gel, elements like paper, gauze, or recycled saris. Add white, umber, blue. The aim in my floor work is to create a nuanced, textured, neutral and still wet background. I then place canvas on easel, and the fun begins. Fields of bright colors, then dirty them up with browns or their complements. In between, I marry colors, then marry those colors to other colors. Finally, I step back and wait for images to call to me, usually women. I sketch them in to various degrees. Lately, most of the images feel like gypsies or poets – not mush or romantic – but strong, opinionated, defiant, with a mouth on them.