That we live in troubled times is probably one of the few things everybody can agree on just now. How each of us manages the mess varies widely. My paintings and drawings are my own peculiar way.
I use elements of the natural world—simple objects like rocks, sticks, animals and trees—as the means to communicate my distress. As I paint I dredge my innermost thoughts and sensations until they come to the surface in distilled fragments. I make marks on the surface until I stop, at which point the part of the work created in my isolated studio is complete.
But this does not mean the work is finished. Placed on the wall of a public space and released from my custody, the work comes into contact with the external world, open for interpretation.
Secondary education: Antioch College, Bennington College, Smith College, UMass
Creative influences (artists): Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Édouard Vuillard, Philip Guston, Janice Nowinski
Creative influences (other): rural habitat, Buddhist philosophy
Favorite quote: “Until death it is all life.” -Miguel de Cervantes
