Painting allows me to filter the world’s pain through the lens of abstraction. I begin with reality and eliminate it bit by bit until I find a small safe place to stop, rest and experience joy before returning to my frantic world.
As a part-time resident of Lopez Island for the past 40 years, the island’s many moods are my most influential source for imagery. Other influences are travel and the desert landscape of the Coachella Valley, where I spend the winter.
I returned to oil painting following degrees and careers in interior design and arts education. I paint nearly every day, and even on the days I don’t, I ponder it, read about it, look at the light, and consider the shadows, the negative space.
I have won awards for both my abstracts and expressionistic landscapes.
I am a gallery member of Women Painters of Washington, The Desert Art Center, The Lopez Artist Guild, and the Artists Council of the Coachella Valley.