Studies and Series
Texture is a rhythm. Line is a language. Style is much more than just a signature. There are many components that make up the methods of an artist. But to rest solely in one place is to not speak the whole truth. To be able to tell the stories that my hands are called to tell, I call upon every style, language and rhythm I know. I prefer to work in ideas, in moments, in spurts and on multiple pieces at a time. Sometimes they take years to finish, sometimes only hours. For me, this work is passion, it's spirituality, it's the connection between creativity and intuition and it happens in studies and series, paint and poetry.
Most of my work focuses on nature, most often representing landscapes and the human body, sometimes both. Many of my projects have also incorporated a surrealist focus distorting movement, perspective and color. Lately, I've been playing with the way nature can do that organically through fog and light.
The Water Bearer
This series walks the line between detail and knowledge. It is a play of control, offering my paint to the business of dripping, wet gravity; letting it form shape before translating the details of imagined and recognized landscapes. In these pieces, I prefer to hold space, sharing only the symbols of my wilderness.
Night Light
Love your darks. I decided to fall in love with the night, with the stars, with the wonderment of the universe. I am a grown woman with a rampent imagination and a fear of the dark, seasoned with bouts of seasonal depression. But I have learned that there is power in seeing the face of your fear. There is knowledge in the unknown, there is light in the night.
The Nature Of The Body
This series has spanned a number of years and plays through a variety of styles, but the root focus is the same. I am interested in the body as an emotional experience, with the way we carry ourselves, the way it shapes our bones.
Movement in Stillnes
This series is an ongoing investigation on the ways paint can describe atmospheric perspective both through illusion and sculptural painty build up. This style often relies more on my formal training by telling the full story; full colors covering canvas, overlapping lines finding shape, crafting shadow, more is more. Dried paint carrying all the movement of liquid.