ARTIST STATEMENT:
My paintings began with slabs of clay, ceramic glazes, and the same tools that I use today to apply, layer, and scrape away paint. I fell in love with mixing colors and the smell of oil paint and turpentine, so I turned from clay to wood and canvas. I now work in many mediums as they all lend different qualities to the process: oil for the saturation of color and patience, acrylic paint for speed, collage and layering for depth, and encaustics (oil and wax): tactile, three dimensional and most like working with clay.

I am mostly a self-taught painter through a series of trial and error. My paintings employ layers of color, boldly worked with palette knives and brushes. I am inspired by green green grass against blue blue sky, anything round, old fabric, yarn, aging shutters, doors and windows, a tulip or allium from underneath, color, spring, fall, and everything I see when I open my eyes.


“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work” - Chuck Close