My
art grows out of an intense desire to create. Humans are co-creators with the Creator. I love playing with colors and shapes,
textures and objects because they speak to me in their own spiritual
language. I am stirred, tickled,
brought to tears, and mystified by the process of creating. Paint and collage are present to me
being gritty, stretched, earthy, spatial, both here and absent, lyrical and
pungent.
I
am a process artist. My art is
bold and subtle, whimsical and serious.
I work with colors that are daring and inviting, often combining
complementarities that pop off the surface. I like the flexibility and powerful colors of acrylic
paints. The variety, depth of
images, and three dimensionality of collage challenge and delight me. I am delighted by relationships within
my art that are opened up by the process.
My
work presents images and compositions
that are abstract. My
search for meaning leads me beyond the associations and assumptions our culture
has hammered into me. The
meaning of a color has more to do with the colors presented with it and with
its shape. In one work yellow can
be happy, in another searing or
threatening. A shape gains meaning
from the color(s) it contains. A
line produces meaning by the positive as well as negative shape it
defines. Walk through the door of
an art work and find the truth that it uniquely contains. Another work - another door - and
another truth is revealed, if we are willing to look.