Artist’s Statement
I am currently living and working in horse country in central New Jersey with my dog, Bella. I live in a retreat house, surrounded by windows, skylights, woods and nature. I have a red-tailed hawk nest twenty feet from my kitchen window. I love it here. It fills me every day and absolutely and completely influences my work.
I believe art is play. The minute I stop playing and become possessive of my work, I can’t go on. I believe that within play comes life, spirituality, a loss of time, rapture. I believe anyone can paint, given the desire.
I am attracted to color, bright color, color depth, singing color, always color. Even in the dark pieces there is a part of me that is taken away by it. When a painting is right, it sings.