I've been a professional artist since the 1970s. I am in private and public collections.
For my credentials and a list of recent exhibitions, please click the button below.
For my credentials and a list of recent exhibitions, please click the button below.
My art is about memory, more specifically about moments in time. It can be a shape or color I saw briefly that stuck in my head. It can be the warmth of the sun on an otherwise forgotten day. It can be something from a dream.
I begin and often end with pastel. But in between there's acrylic paint, colored pencil, patterns either stenciled or collaged, thick viscous layers of gel medium, more pastel, more paint, more collage, more gel medium,.
Then less.
My process is a freewheeling argument between addition and subtraction. I erase and scratch into it. I tear out, glue on, paste over, and reshape it. The work seldom becomes what I imagined it to be, and the scars of what it was are always visible. I never throw anything away. Either I muscle it into something that skeptically, grudgingly, surprisingly works, or I chop it up and use it in something else.
Near the finish, I add objects. They might be only a string of tiny beads at the bottom corner to add a pop of color, or a row of inconspicuous tiles for a shot of texture. Lately, I've been letting my objects star in their own productions. They have become fabulously full-blown assemblages that take a place of honor at the center of the work. I use the same process in my digital art. Photoshop is less an application on my desktop than another medium, like pastel or paint.
The process is still the same: layer upon layer, addition, subtraction, repeat.
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