Artist’s Statement

“It was my intention to be an artist from the very beginning” I am visually stimulated by everything.  Patterns, colors, objects, figures, shapes, and life’s aesthetic rhythms draw me in.  My eye bolts to the dramatic and the bold.  Recently, I have embarked on a series of landscapes/waterscapes, a genre that has eluded me until now.  My access in was language.   Language allows me to feel the space I am trying to create. I am a true colorist, I see color.

My work is inspired by joyfulness.  Like the feeling you get when flowers arrive unexpectedly or when you are in the sub-way and someone compliments your coat.  Fragments of time that make you smile.  I look for this same feeling in my work.  I pay homage to the things I love and that draw me in every day.

Calligraphy and Language gave me the same strength and the movement allowing me in a very natural way, to go places I have not gone before.  Along with the text I have incorporated elements of collage and my own iconic images.  I have always used collage in various ways and my recent work shows a new vision, direction, and growth. Through this process I have found an original voice accessing me to landscapes and larger scaled works in a very natural and exciting way.  I have traveled through many ways of telling my artistic stories and currently feel I have found the rhythm and clarity for my vision and style.  The energy within my new series is taking me on a very exciting journey.