Artist's Statement
My art expresses, not merely what I see in the world, and not just what I feel inside, but my sense of interacting with the world — my seeing, hearing, touching.
My work is abstract in the sense that it depicts no single thing or place or person, but my experiencing and magnifying some prehistoric remains, some artifact of nature, a stone, a piece of bark, a tree branch, or some larger landscape, some rock formations or geological lakebed on earth, close up or at a satellite distance. I find rhythms and intriguing forms in intertwining branches of trees and patterns in tree bark. On beaches I pick up stones and seashells, always fascinated by their similar rhythm and design and relationship to the wider universe.
New scientific exploration of the Martian landscape provide more inspiration for my art, as my work explores connections between the exterior world of nature and the interior world of emotion, from the levels of a magnifying glass to images brought to earth by telescope and Nasa’s rover transmissions.
These explorations on nature as an abstraction are highlighted by my exploration of varied surfaces and mediums — watercolor, earth pigments, resin, ink, wax and acrylic on paper, mylar and workable transparencies. The work is often layered and riveted or sewn together, inviting the viewer to see the work in many dimensions.
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