The pulse of color and the play of light and texture are constant sources of stimulation. Color creates light, light creates form. To generate depth, energy and movement with illusions of volume, space, light, and time –
this is why I paint.
My first career was designing, weaving, and marketing hand woven rag rugs. Colorful and whimsical, they sold in many prominent stores across the country. After many years of weaving rugs, I decided to combine my sense of color with my love of the written word and move into the field of illustration. I created editorial illustration for magazines, book publishing, packaging, logo design, tiny pop-up books and huge murals for museums. So many images for so many purposes that I have finally been driven to abstraction.
After 15 years of illustration (illuminating words with images), I am now imaging patterns of communication and human interaction. My paintings record my abstracted, layered and introspective experience of encounters with people, books, media, conversations with myself, and the world. Good communication requires kinetic creativity, many layers of light, texture, balance, nuance, and surprise. Pattern and repetition, rhythm and interruption make up ours lives. Geometry bridges the inner and outer worlds, adds structure and sense, both ancient and contemporary.
The art on this website has been created between 2016 and 2023 and is produced using an unusual combination of materials. Cotton rag papers, wood, aluminum, fabric are used as substrates. I often print the base layer, saturate it with beeswax, then paint with a variety of mediums: encaustic, pigment sticks, cold wax, ink, watercolors, gouache, Flashe, cold wax. Sometimes I sand or distress and continue layering. Some of my images are created by layering lightweight papers that allow me to build color transparencies with added depth. I begin my work with habits I developed as an illustrator - pencil sketches or paint on paper, often moving onto my computer, continuing to paint or draw with a stylus or tablet. Playing with both intent and accident, I build images in layers, whether working on the computer or working with wax or paint.
I studied Art Education and weaving at Antioch College, illustration at the Art Institute of Boston, and Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design. I am a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the Boston Printmakers, and a member of New England Wax.
this is why I paint.
My first career was designing, weaving, and marketing hand woven rag rugs. Colorful and whimsical, they sold in many prominent stores across the country. After many years of weaving rugs, I decided to combine my sense of color with my love of the written word and move into the field of illustration. I created editorial illustration for magazines, book publishing, packaging, logo design, tiny pop-up books and huge murals for museums. So many images for so many purposes that I have finally been driven to abstraction.
After 15 years of illustration (illuminating words with images), I am now imaging patterns of communication and human interaction. My paintings record my abstracted, layered and introspective experience of encounters with people, books, media, conversations with myself, and the world. Good communication requires kinetic creativity, many layers of light, texture, balance, nuance, and surprise. Pattern and repetition, rhythm and interruption make up ours lives. Geometry bridges the inner and outer worlds, adds structure and sense, both ancient and contemporary.
The art on this website has been created between 2016 and 2023 and is produced using an unusual combination of materials. Cotton rag papers, wood, aluminum, fabric are used as substrates. I often print the base layer, saturate it with beeswax, then paint with a variety of mediums: encaustic, pigment sticks, cold wax, ink, watercolors, gouache, Flashe, cold wax. Sometimes I sand or distress and continue layering. Some of my images are created by layering lightweight papers that allow me to build color transparencies with added depth. I begin my work with habits I developed as an illustrator - pencil sketches or paint on paper, often moving onto my computer, continuing to paint or draw with a stylus or tablet. Playing with both intent and accident, I build images in layers, whether working on the computer or working with wax or paint.
I studied Art Education and weaving at Antioch College, illustration at the Art Institute of Boston, and Industrial Design at Rhode Island School of Design. I am a member of the Graphic Artists Guild, the Boston Printmakers, and a member of New England Wax.
