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I
have always been a dancer and a dreamer, stuck in my head and wanting to
inhabit my body gracefully and without fear. Art supports that process for me. It also provides a means with which I can digest the world. I am inspired by movement and
metaphor and a deep desire to express, transform & explore.
My formal artistic education began in college, where I was trained as a
scenic artist and theatrical designer. I then traveled to Paris to study the Van Aken
Classical Technique and work in the Louvre as a copyist. I
spent many years working professionally as a muralist, scenic painter, and
copyist, and it has only been during and since my time studying to become
an Expressive Arts Therapist (starting in 2005) that I have begun to make space for my own
images to emerge.
I enjoy working with oil and acrylic paints, collage,
clay, mixed media, found objects, and photography. Currently, my fascination is
with light and shadow, the color gold, and deconstructionism. I am also
delighted by texture and the subtle application of irony and the questioning of
systemic assumptions.
Though
not always present in the themes of my artwork, environmental sustainability is
something I value. I revere the natural world and often integrate items
scavenged from my time outdoors into my artwork (never anything living). I hope
that by putting natural objects back in the realm of artistic and spiritual
reverence, we can slowly shift away from the current ways in which we
un-sustainably consume the earth. Most of my materials, including frames,
canvases, and textural objects, are reclaimed. |
