Color is my muse. It reaches out, takes my breath and burrows into my brain. I can’t let it go until I’ve explored it fully, investigated its’ depths, intricacies and subtleties. It rarely lets me go until we have sung all its’ songs and danced every dance.

Once inspired, I begin to explore the sensibilities touched within me. Shapes and textures show up as an outlet for the colors to flourish and express my initial experience of their splendor.

My art practice is a physical/spiritual search for universal order in worldly chaos via color and process.

My methods are less an attempt to control and more a continuous process of inquiry. By revealing delving, excavating, layering and uncovering elements I make sense of my world.

Using an iterative process, I create large, exploratory, intuitive works that become parts and pieces of new compositions, which in turn, metamorphose further.

Using acrylic paint, graphite, pastels, pencils, inks, paper scraps, needle and thread, found objects, artist-made stamps and stencils, wax, printing, sanding, scraping, and more, I’m able to explore all the facets and corners of my inspiration.

My work is a tribute to and a deep admiration for the beautiful, the captivating and the overlooked. The inherent beauty of the world is so profound, so calming, healing and ever-present. And its pleasures are so readily available to us all.

The weathered patina of a metal chair left in the rain for ages, the warm, multi-colored eggs collected from the chickens each morning, a bed of zinnias beaming hot fuchsia and orange electricity, a quarter mile of lichen-covered trees Illuminated by a perfect blast of morning sunshine, or the sensual palette of pale blues and browns created by a rainy, misty day in the mountains.

All this treasure can be easily overlooked in our hurried, harried world. With my work, I hope to extend to the viewer an invitation to rest, breathe deeply and attune to the small, beautiful things already present in our lives.