ARTIST STATEMENT

I believe we live in a world where people are more alike than different and I’m especially interested in our common truths. With art as the catalyst, I occupy a state of presence to communicate first with myself and then offer a place in which the viewer may pause, observe, discover and be transported.

My art is about routes, rootedness and connections, one to the other. I explore just below the surface of consciousness, drawing from my own inner world and marrying it with outside influences, some personal, others gleaned from our environment and culture. I am an observer, a scribe, a poet and my art forms the foundation for stories to be told. Ordinary experiences such as the wind swaying tall grasses, the sheer magnitude of the night sky, graceful interactions between people captivate my imagination.

The language of abstraction provides a means of communicating visually, often influenced by our landscape and the marks left by inhabitants - human, animal, current and ancient. My work is naturally impacted by a sense of place – spaciousness and yet full of upheaval, destruction – man-made and natural forces. Memories bubble forth, interjecting themselves as well as sights, sounds, conversations, poetry. Dualities. The nexus between the man-made and natural world is where I find beauty in the decay of crumbling structures or weathered detritus. With a minimalist aesthetic, symbols and marks speak to history, a mystery and relational encounters on a search for deeper meaning.