artist statement

I create lyrical, gestural abstraction with floral/botanical images, calligraphic elements, and floating motifs in gouache, watercolor, pastels, sumi ink, and mineral pigments. These paintings convey my interest in subtle levels of creation, meditation states, and the capturing of nature’s essence and energy. I aim to express the unseen source, its beauty, wonder, and radiance.

I depict the flow of interior images, unconnected to contemporary history except as a means of uplifting and showing the beauty that still exists within each moment, despite turmoil and troubling events in the world.

I and we as humans need this to survive, navigate, flourish, and contribute. Instead of reminding you of appalling things that abound, I’d rather my art bring you into the present moment, the timeless, the sublime. My goal is to create work that enlivens consciousness, nourishes the soul, heals, and evokes happiness and wholeness.

I transform my inner images and the images I see in the world around me in nature, books, and art by processing it through my own consciousness, back to the universal field of unbounded awareness, and then out through my individual nervous system as expressions in art media. Inspiration comes from quiet interior states, meditation experiences, and contemplative creative time.

More reveals itself in the studio as paintings in gouache, pastels, oilsticks, and mineral pigment; mixed media art, collage, photography, and whatever emerges, frequently as a surprise.