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.
The art on this website has been created between 2011 and 2016 and is printed using archival pigment dyes on cotton rag watercolor papers. Wood, aluminum, fabric, and collage substrates, as well as encaustic paint add further dimension to the work. Other materials and tools include pigment sticks, watercolors, gouache, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Corel Painter, Wacom tablet, computer, digital cameras, & iPad. I start my work with sketches or paint on paper, often moving onto my computer, continuing to paint or draw with a stylus and digital tablet. Playing with both intent and accident, I build images in layers, whether working on the computer or working with wax or 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 fifteen 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 friends, strangers, books, media, conversations with myself, and with the world. Communication requires a lot of creativity, a lot of light, a lot of color, texture, balance, nuance, and, hopefully, surprise.
I was educated at Antioch College, the Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and Rhode Island School of Design. I am a member of the Graphic Artists Guild and the Boston Printmakers.
The art on this website has been created between 2011 and 2016 and is printed using archival pigment dyes on cotton rag watercolor papers. Wood, aluminum, fabric, and collage substrates, as well as encaustic paint add further dimension to the work. Other materials and tools include pigment sticks, watercolors, gouache, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Corel Painter, Wacom tablet, computer, digital cameras, & iPad. I start my work with sketches or paint on paper, often moving onto my computer, continuing to paint or draw with a stylus and digital tablet. Playing with both intent and accident, I build images in layers, whether working on the computer or working with wax or 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 fifteen 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 friends, strangers, books, media, conversations with myself, and with the world. Communication requires a lot of creativity, a lot of light, a lot of color, texture, balance, nuance, and, hopefully, surprise.
I was educated at Antioch College, the Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts College of Art, and Rhode Island School of Design. I am a member of the Graphic Artists Guild and the Boston Printmakers.
