"In all of my art, I am interested in creating images that engage the lyrical and metaphorical aspects of poetry as well as the abstract rhythms found in music. I seek to create art that is deceptively simple—seemingly capable of being grasped in an instant, though, in truth, revealing its content only through the prolonged contemplation of a viewer. My involvement with a painting is largely intuitive--an immersion within the materials, a dance with color, line and shape, an almost hypnotic stepping outside of time into an infinitely expanded present. The work is essentially a process of discovery--an internal search for a plastic image expressive of a completely pre-verbal awareness."

-Paul Rinaldi