Artist Statement: This is a dimensional piece with a curved picture plane. It is interesting to look at from multiple
perspectives.
Bio: I’ve spent much of my working career applying visual arts to practical problems—as graphic designer for paying clients and as pro bono designer for children’s advocacy,
community bands, and church organizations. These paintings are studies in art media. I am fascinated with leaves, sea shells, and other found natural objects. As stamps, masks, and appliqués, leaves find their way onto many of my paintings.
Glazes are a versatile way to incorporate the textures, shapes, and colors of found objects into a painting or collage. I work with acrylics as thin as a water color wash and
as thick as modeling paste. Colors applied layer after, mixed–never straight from the tube–add complementary colors successively to yield complex color patterns.
Brushed, yes, but also blotted, wiped, scrunched, and splattered.
I finally have a studio with a sink! And much like Lazarus rising from the dead, I am trying to resurrect my artistic confidence. I am also beginning to invite others to join
me in a studio of sanctuary where the point is to play in the paint, take risks, not worry about making art!
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