Artist Statement

For many years I have worked with textures, abstraction, and landscape. I typically incorporate fabrics of different kinds (satin, burlap, velvet, and others), combined with some or all of the following: rice paper, various acrylic media, ashes, concrete, acrylic paint, oil pastels, oil paint, charcoal, graphite, and prismacolor.

More recently, without abandoning these, as texture and touching remain important to me, I have also begun to focus on the human figure. I believe that beauty and sensuality are found in the varied individuality of forms, human, and natural, and the particularities that express character and feeling.

Usually I work on the human figure by first adhering pieces of satin to the canvas. Some parts of the primed canvas are left bare. When a figure is drawn (usually with charcoal first and later with prismacolor) and painted (with acrylic) onto the canvas, the lines of the fabric and its various imperfections and seams then become part of the figure that must be worked with. Like the imperfections in every human body, these are the givens each individual accrues and must deal with in some way in order to live and thrive.