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Artist’s Statement

I work primarily in oil and oil paint stick on wood panels and on canvas. The world around me provides me with nearly all of the inspiration and wonder I need. In my paintings, I try to express and also celebrate my passion for nature and all its splendor of color and variety. I employ layers of color, as well as juxtaposed colors, to create a visual energy that fascinates me.
I also began recently to investigate collage much more fully-- both on paper and other supports. Besides paint, crayon, and oil pastel, my collages are made from a variety of items: colored and textured papers, flyers, and cutouts from magazines and from maps. Bits and pieces of these papers and such have come from trips abroad to foreign destinations like Paris and The Bahamas.
My work is about “place” and is landscape-inspired, but it is not a representation of a specific location. The visitor to my artwork is welcome to enter these places by imagination, memory, and reverie. My hope is that there will be many visitors.

Terrestrial Updated

2006
Oil/Mixed Media on Birch Panel
60.96cm x 60.96cm

Monocerotis I After Ganymede

2006
Oil/Mixed Media on Birch Panel
35.56 x 30.48 cm

Green Tea II

2006
Mixed Media and Collage on Paper
29.29 x 22.86 cm

Green Tea I

2006
Mixed Media and Collage on Paper
29.29 x 22.86 cm

Why the Muse Speaks

2006
Mixed Media and Collage on Paper
29.29 x 22.86 cm

Scents and Sensibility

2006
Mixed Media and Collage on Paper
50.8 x38.1cm

Terrestrial III

2006
Oil/Mixed Media on Birch Panel
60.96 x 60.96cm

Magic Carpet Ride 4b

2008
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel on Canvas
91.44 x 86.36

Untitled 08_05

2008
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel on Birch
76.2 x 61

Reminiscence 2

2008
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel on Birch
40.6 x 40.6

Magic Carpet Ride 3

2008
Acrylic/gouache/crayon/collage on rag paper
76.2 x 55.9

Feeling Blue, Parlez-vous?

2008
Acrylic/gouache/crayon/collage on Museum board
76.2 x 50.8

Magic Carpet Ride 1

2007
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel/collage on Canvas
76.2 x 76.2

Sweet Memento

2005
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel on Birch
61 x61

Reflections of a Memory

2005
Oil/oilstick/oil pastel on Birch
61 x 61