BIOGRAPHY

Art has always influenced and permeated my life in a myriad of ways. My mother was a remarkable and talented artist. My uncle painted large canvases of Montana scenes full of mountains and wildlife. My brother is an ink and watercolor nature artist.

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In my 20’s I was immersed in photography, using a darkroom to produce magical images. My favorite was a series of Mothers and Babies in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which was powerful and poignant. Later I painted still life and portraits in oil, and later worked in clay, sculpting Raku masks and torsos. While traveling, when the accoutrements of ceramics were too cumbersome to transport, I painted in pastels. Each journey through these various art forms provided the platform for the next endeavor.

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Immersing myself in acrylic has been a homecoming. Much to my surprise, I have delighted in the spontaneity of abstract, like unveiling a secret unknown to even the artist.  I began using washes to build up layers of translucent color that combine in stunning ways.  These paintings have an emotional quality that spill out like a birth, forming themselves into otherworldy lifescapes. They sometimes resemble a cloud of gas and dust in space, lights or silhouettes against something luminous. It is dynamic energy, beckoning you in.

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Facing a blank canvas is wonderfully freeing. Rather than re-creating something known, I am unbound and shapes manifest on their own. These paintings reveal a combination of serenity and tumultuousness, alive and full of movement and all coming together like poetry. After painting I feel like I have adventured and explored and declared. I walk out feeling an exquisite peace.