ARTIST STATEMENT
My art and writing draw on my life as a naturalist and observer of texture, form, patterns, rhythms and color moving through space and time. I have worked in a variety of media over the years, including sculpture, photography, paper collage, multimedia, as well as installation works and often in multiples. Many of my most recent Abstract Expressionist work is painted with oil sticks on canvasses I found with pre-existing sketches, another artist’s unfinished paintings. While barely visible artifacts in the final product, those marks are referenced, explored and brought forward in color and shape. Similarly, the raw, unfinished edges pay homage to the absence of clear beginnings and endings. After years of creating art that was more design- oriented and intellectual, the liberating oil sticks encouraged me to draw from an emotional reservoir and my deep connection to the natural world. Influenced by the likes of Frankenthaler and Mitchell, years of sunsets and waters and fields burst abstractly onto the canvas.