My parents were not gifted with a lot of money, but they always managed to keep me supplied with coloring books, crayons, canvases, paints, and a camera. I was (and still am) a loner and chose to color, paint, or shoot natural elements, while other children collectively played in the street. As a teenager, I mastered creative painting on clay and bisque ceramics.
I traveled the U.S. and Europe extensively photographing my surroundings in black and white and color. I digitally manipulate most of my photography for an abstraction of the original image.
Although I have dabbled in jewelry making, fiber art, wheel throwing, and glass fusion over the years, my passion is abstract painting.
I began exhibiting and selling my art in 1991 at various venues in Boulder, CO; Columbia, SC; Asheville and Black Mountain, NC; and Tampa, Rockledge and Vero Beach, FL. Several of my paintings, photography, and sculptures received first-place prize winning monetary awards and ribbons.
MY STATEMENT
I am a self-taught mixed-media non-representational artist with ever-changing techniques and styles. Most of my work is very heavily textured and I enjoy working with metallics, inks, and watercolors. As cliched as this reads, I really do let my imagination and brush lead the way; I just follow them.
My photography, more often than not, is manipulated digitally to distort the original image. The abstraction (to me) creates interest and says more than the original print sometimes.
My paintings and photography range from bright and cheery to dark and bizarre and from simplistic to very busy. Like most artists, my mood determines the outcome of my work.
I love abstractions (paintings and photography). They offer me space and freedom ultimately resulting in work that triggers instinctual emotional responses over intellectual analysis.
