Artist Statement
I love to paint.
Painting gives me an opportunity to share my ideas of beauty. I’ve been painting more abstract, large and small, but when I need a break from it, I go back to paint my other loves - landscape, still life and sometimes figurative.
I found that many of my life's lessons are earned in the process of becoming a painter - abstractly as in the relatiionship between values and colors; the near and the far in perspective; rhythms and music in our feeling. Even the act of cropping for a composition, I fathom it like choosing to think and see a more favorable view of life in all things.
I relish in Abstract painting. I love the freedom and challenge; the unpreditability and the surprises. The reward that comes out of trusting oneself, letting go and letting the unknown unfold is a Zen moment, when one is sort of lost and yet totally aware at the threshhold of becoming. The possibilities are numerous. One simply has to chose one, then again, and again.
My career as an artist came late. After coming out of Arizona State University with a degree in painting, Van Gogh and Cezanne's paintings were my mentors for a long, long time (they still are). But it wasn't until I studied with many professional artists at the Scottsdale Art School that I was able to proclaim myself an artist. Everyday I find new things and new ways to add to my knowledge and to appreciate my journey as an artist.
