Artist’s Statement
I am fascinated by the edge of things; the edge of a riverbank, the rough edges of trees silhouetted against the sky; and the end of the day or the beginning. The edge is a place of transition, a space that reveals my eternal nature as I evolve.

Using transparent and opaque gestural brush strokes and vibrant colors that are overlaid by each day’s work, I create a visual diary. Every mark is infused with my relationship to joy and tragedy, and expresses a sense of wonder – opening me to the energies of the sky, water, earth.

I work outdoors and return each day to the same location, setting the easel in a slightly different position, painting at various times of the day. Each work captures my emotional response to the light, reflections, trees, clouds, and the edge. I paint an intuitive shift of sight so that the painting seems to focus on particulars instead of a continuous image. The unpredictability of this technique produces a single canvas or multiples of different sizes that form vertical and horizontal compositions.

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