Artist’s Statement

 A decade working as an Urban and Regional Planner, struggling to promote change by direction and political influence, awakened a desire in me to MAKE something, something ACTUAL.  The 3-year apprenticeship in cabinetmaking, which followed, fed a stronger urgency to add personal creativity to my efforts as a maker. 

By enrolling in a Basic Drawing class I slipped into the rabbit hole of fine arts and 33 years later am still swirling in these eddies.  To drawing, painting, and collage I have added 3-dimensional work in metal, designing distinctively personal decorative objects in copper, silver, and gold.

As my work has progressed over time I have found that as varied as the resulting images and products may be from one another, present in its entirety are several essentials:

I am an expressionist who intentionally invites the viewer into an active search, process, and encounters with my work whether it be a gestural abstraction, an organized and linear painting, a drawing or a collage, or a design in metal.

I love the process of the hunt, the finding of the work, which results from grappling with my material.  I dive headlong into my work without planning and measuring. I am guided by a process I call ‘visual thinking’; it could equally be called ‘visual feeling’ because I seek to communicate by employing formal means- responding to what I see in color, proportion, the weight of the material, sense of touch; I leave the impress of my hand on all I do.  My work is done when I’m both technically satisfied with the piece and when I feel it resonate in me.

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