“Painting has always held a magical component for me. The process of painting has been a multifaceted journey. When I was very young; about five years old, I remember watching my beloved grandfather create oil paintings on the easel that is now mine. In front of my young eyes, his paintings were spectacular images celebrating dramatic landscape and water scenes. The paintings seemed to glitter. The incredible effects of color and texture, and the wonderful aroma of the oil medium had me fascinated.
Incredible places in California, growing up on a Wisconsin lake, living in Oregon, loving water, and mountains have honed and nurtured my affinity for natural beauty. My art is, and has been, fueled by my life, and so many experiences. In turn, my interest in art, and the study of art have pushed me academically and throughout my teaching career. My work expresses the act of mark making and color used as entity, emotion and descriptor. The spiritual, and the physical are important players within the space of the canvas. I want to make visible, and suggest the invisible. As Roald Dahl, the writer expressed so well: “I wanted the world to dazzle before my eyes. Then I realized it already was.”