"Vision and Sensibility"
Hans Hofman's school impressed upon me "the primacy of the visual dynamics of form and color", the crucial importance of paint itself as a material, and the atheletic, gestural performance.
In this arena, painting could not validly exist as the illustration of some settled knowledge, but as a process whereby the conscious and unconscious mind might be explored, and the dreams and visions expressed, interpreted.

Abstract vocabulary
-  a penchant for lyrical mood.
-  more or less musical arrangement of element
-  aura of subtle poetry.