My painting is about motion, emotion, surface and color, about honoring negative as well as positive space. I may dream about making a specific painting, but by the time I get to the canvas, the process begins as a mystery to me.How do I begin? By picking up a pencil to sketch, a brush to glaze or a palette knife to apply a thick layer of paint-sometimes it’s agonizing. Other times, an exciting journey that I do not want to end.
Having photographed in black and white for many years, I gravitated to printing my images in a very old medium-light-sensitive platinum, which requires applying emulsions of chemicals to paper with a brush. My entrée into painting.
Much to my surprise, my work veered from the representational to the interpretative-it is bathed in color. My paintings evoke a smile or a longing-a tension between familiarity and abstraction.
My arts education includes studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Maine Photographic Workshops, Rodney Smith Portrait Workshops, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, the Art League of Northern Virginia and Rob Vander Zee School of Painting.
I have exhibited my paintings at the Gail Browne Gallery (Provincetown, MA), The Park Café (Washington, DC)., Black Rock Center for the Arts (Germantown, MD), Art 17 (Washington DC), Fresh Air (Winchester, VA) Cosi Capitol Hill and Solo Flight (Washington, DC). And I have participated in juried shows at the Art League (Alexandria, VA), Instituto de Artes Fotograficas (Lima, Peru), Pierce School Capitol Hill, Capital Hill Arts Workshop and The Arts Club (Washington DC).
Raised in New England, I spent splendid summers along the Massachusetts and Maine coasts and return often. My paintings are influenced by the air, light and magic those areas offer.