While my artwork has changed radically in the time I have been making art professionally, what has remained constant is a passion for discovering the connection between the art that I’m making and its relationship to my own understanding of what is occurring within me. The committed practice of art making can be put down for periods of time but the psyche simply goes into pause, and once the process of making art resumes, it’s as if it begins again just where it left off. Being able to make art requires a set of conditions that can be challenging to create and sustain…. But going there, while sometimes involves a struggle, always provides enough interest to make the process worthwhile. The invisible becomes visible.

There are two different categories of art creation that I have been involved in in the last twenty years, individual works found in the 'Portfolio,' while the 'Projects' section houses two main projects: The Kei, a divination system, and the World Holiday Calendar, two creative projects that swept me off my feet for many years at a time.

In the portfolio there are three kinds of paintings:

Acrylic Paintings: Over the years I have taken painting workshops at Esalen with my teacher Leigh Hyams, an internationally recognized painter. I came to her as a collage artist, controlled and deliberate, but wanted to possess more spontaneity in my paintings. Freedom is something one practices. Occasionally you arrive, say ‘aha!’ and just as soon as you know you have found it, its lost again. These paintings are an exercise in finding and loosing, loosing and finding.

Black Ink on Canvas: Created directly with a dropper, the ink paintings were executed in the spirit of immediacy, and direct contact with the media in the moment during my infant’s naps when all I had was an hour and a half at a time to work. I was interested in not going over my work as you can with acrylic, not apologizing for what came out, seeing if something beautiful could arrive in the first shot.

Paper Mosaics: The mosaics are a marriage of cut up abstract acrylic paintings that never initially resolved themselves mounted on canvases of ink paintings that also never initially amounted to anything. Both needed to be deconstructed and reconstructed to approach a semblance of grace. The challenge of creating work using materials that could have just as easily been contributed to the landfill was interesting to me, especially in light of the fact that we are constantly dished out circumstances in our lives that are less than ideal and with resourcefulness, creativity and patience we can find beauty in any situation.