Artist Statement | My inspiration comes from both the natural and built environments and often the juxtaposition of the two. Overall, I strive for an active and engaging composition, bright energetic colors, pleasing color balance, a vibrant sense of place and feelings of immediacy, urgency, conflict, dissolution and above all whimsy, liberation and joy.

The process is an intuitive solution to problems that arise, are created or perceived and resolved, all within the context of the art image itself. Layers built up using paints and stained papers are then wiped, scraped, or sanded down. Tools include brushes, scrapers, knives, trowels, rollers, blotters, squirt bottles, sprayers, sanding blocks, tape, and other resists..

Education | The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973 through 1978, graduating with a BA in Studio Arts and concentrations in mixed media sculpture and drawing. The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1979 through 1981, graduating with a MA in Studio Arts and concentrations in mixed media sculpture and drawing.