Studio and Work

My work is influenced and inspired by my day to day life. I am an artist and a mother, and my studio practice reflects both worlds.  Modernism and Abstract Expressionism first ignited my intellectual interest and still feed my visual appetite, along with pattern and design from many cultures, American folk art, and contemporary art.

I make paintings, sculpture, work on paper, and installations. Each mode informs the others, and there is no hierarchy. I delve into whichever medium feels the most compelling and necessary at the moment.

My starting point is often an off-handed thought. I’m walking on the stone path out to my car, and I imagine making a replica of the irregular shapes of the stones, linking them together and hanging the whole thing up like laundry on the line, oversized and dangling. I’m walking the dog past a wood or garden, and want to re-create, in a painting, the sensation of the eye moving around finding treasures amongst the chaos. I’m busy making one thing in the studio, and the scraps become another.

I get many pots cooking at the same time, in order to outrun the demons of self judgement and doubt. In this activated state, I find calm engagement to immerse myself in hidden worlds and imagined structures. 

 I’m most enamored with the surprise and mystery of what occurs when I follow the work.