As a multidisciplinary artist and designer, I explore different approaches to making art. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each project, one thing remains my true inspiration—nature, and its infinite array of shapes, colors and textures. The natural world’s fruitfulness and its tendency to continuously grow and effortlessly evolve from one thing to another continues to fascinate me and has been my source of inspiration for many years.
I create my art to have a voice. To make visual, to the viewer, what it’s like to be a mother, in this day and at my age.
An art piece usually begins with something I want to talk about or feel passionate about or that I find humorous. My artwork can be perceived by the audience the same way a story is shared from a friend to a friend; by looking, listening, observing and sometimes reading what the story is. I hope my art instigates conversations with people, so they will share their own stories with each other.
Mother Nature provides limitless inspiration!
Just imagine… a single petal that blends perfectly into the flower and that flower has it’s place in a field full of flowers and that field is part of a mountain pass and that mountain pass creates the deep valleys and high cirques of a mountain range and that range eventually melts into the openness of the wide prairie that has the field full of flowers. Then along comes a moose that eats that flower while a Raven picks at the buds in the deep grass…. I could go on.
Interior spaces were on the menu over the last year. With these paintings I’m looking beyond the obvious and embracing the atypical. leaving my images open to interpretation. My process is to craft an image that intrigues me, with an emphasis on light and composition, from a memory, movie or photograph. A departure from exhibiting landscape, I have enjoyed the process of creating this body of work.
