I am a painter working with acrylic in a "watercolor" way, often incorporating collage elements. I am enamored with the process of applying large brush stokes of color. Creating depth and texture I combine layering paint and removing paint. My methods include: removing parts of the layer with alcohol, blotter papers, stamping, stencils, scraping techniques. This reveals under-layers incorporating new color and texture. I then apply symbolic or spontaneous gestural lines to provide movement. Collage elements will often come into play and are incorporated into the surface. I love the way the paintings shapes and forms begin to talk to me and tell me what to do next. I work on several paintings at a time, applying layers of color, collage and texture. Sometimes I have a subject in mind, but most often I work intuitively allowing my inner computer to work in an automatic response.
"The best part about art is that you never seem to feel old!" It is as if you are forever the perpetual student and will never really grow up. While on this art journey, you can never know it ALL; there are continual exciting personal discoveries. The journey is never boring and always a challenge. Painting, to me, is not about having a heavy heart and not about righting a wrong. It is all about singing, dancing, experiencing new revelations, laughing and feeling joyful, being open to the world around me. It is about: the activity of being creative, the mystery of life, nature with her ever changing forms, capturing, with my craft, a painting that expresses my personal emotional response rather than a subject or thing.
Experimenting with new ways of working in water media and collage, keeps me excited and enthusiastic about working as an abstract artist. My ultimate goal is to engage the viewers, to stop them in their tracks and experience intrigue, enjoy and entertainment.
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