About

My art practice involves a synergistic and systemic approach to forms, where one idea leads to and joins another in a non-sequential narrative of materiality. The process allows for intense connection with interactions of color, texture and space and evokes a meditative experience. The repetitive actions required in completing the artwork are integral to the experience that takes me to an intangible, emotional and sublime place. The work is an act of balancing control and serendipity.

My work is about interpreting the natural world in images on paper that bring new perspective to what we experience in life.

I work on semi-objective approaches to image and color, many stemming from textile influences while often referencing or including handwritten words, landscape and botany.  I find tranquility in mark making and the visual result of that action. I enjoy working with a set structure such as a grid, matrix or type of mark and then exploring ways to apply the structure as a puzzle to be solved.  While my content remains generally abstract in nature, landscape as a compositional structure is most often on my mind. I enjoy comparing texture and pattern where they meet at an edge.  In general I am interested in all aspects of natural history and ecology and often these interests emerge in my work.         

Videos

Artist’s Talk for Following a Thread show at Form+Content Gallery - April 29-June 19, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1nteyyZBao

Check out a studio tour and discussion of my work here https://youtu.be/PY9S27Ap2o0

And a gallery talk at my show at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery in July 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdSuHhoA818&t=254s