ARTIST STATEMENT

Consistently present in my work are nature, movement, and the body. I work intuitively, putting practice before theory. My physical process begins with gestures of color. Color creates form, which I interpret and clarify by scraping away and adding on.
Currently I'm working on mixed media paintings on canvas and fabric, some with fabric and plastic collaged or woven into the canvas. The materials are embedded with personal history. By transforming these through layering and erasing, I’m transforming the personal stories attached to them, creating psychic space for myself. I have a visceral reaction to color, texture, and line. I want elements that hug, caress, lean on, or distance themselves. The configuration, and the spaces in between, creates meaning. The mixing of mediums, which can include oil and acrylic paint, oil pastels, water based oil, spray paint, and graphite, creates tactile surfaces at once both soft and rough, shiny and dull, agitated and quiet. These describe both external states of physicality and internal states of mind. The finished work marks a moment in time, but keeps moving, keeps questioning, creating a context for experience rather than a quick reading.