Artist's Statement

While I am working, I am thinking about making interesting and unique marks and about the way colors react to other colors, textures to other textures, lines to other lines. I use my memories and emotional responses to being a mother, a friend, and a nature lover to create exciting shapes, color relationships and linear qualities that react and respond beautifully and powerfully to each other. My paintings are primarily abstract because abstract art requires the viewer to spend time with it, to interpret it. As an artist, I want to invite the viewer to spend time with my paintings to decipher and unravel the forms that they see. I am passionate about bringing images to their fruition through a magical alchemy that occurs when putting paint on canvas.

My current work is informed by 21st century painters and those from many years ago. The range of my influences extends from El Greco’s powerful skies to DeKooning’s beautiful fleshy abstractions to Soutine’s brilliant brushwork. I’m also drawn to Rita Ackermann’s exquisite use of line and Cecily Brown’s sensuous figures and stunning use of light. I am constantly looking to art history to grow the emotional and technical depth of my work. 

• Pictured - "Pinks and Blues", 28x22", oil, oil stick on canvas