Biography
At the age of eight, I took my first after school art class-oil painting. I learned to paint from life and mix colors. I loved the control of building my own world. I found my place.
I chose to attend Rhode Island School of design. There I studied textiles, illustration and majored in painting. I graduated class of 1986.
Four decades later in 2014, I earned a Master's Degree from Lesley University, College of Art and Design.
My love of art is a gift I give to myself and share with others everyday.
Artist Statement 2024
I disrupt conventional paradigms, working through the boundaries of aesthetics, coherence, and familiarity. I enter into deliberate discourse through traditional painting techniques. My aspiration is to advance through comprehension the interplay between disparate objects and the unity they form. Amidst chaos, I orchestrate order, and spark discourse. Propelled by intention to make order from chaos and understanding through experience of how parts relate to a whole.
Opportunity, 4’x4’ Oil on Canvas, 2021
Artist Statement 2021
Delighted with the malleability of color and the freedom of a blank canvas. I use my materials to tell stories.
Squeezing oil paints from their tubes and smelling the heavy odors I relax. Unabashedly mixing colors warm and cool. I apply the paint with brushes, cloth, and palette knives. I work to evoke a mood. My paintings take form when the colors and composition merge to create visual movement. It is then I put my paint brush down.
My work is a reflection of my experience and truth.