About THE PAINTINGS
Most of my paintings are done with oil and a palette knife on board or canvas.
They have been shown in galleries and other venues in Arizona and North Carolina.
Painting prices range from $1,500 to $5,000. Please contact me directly if you are interested in a particular painting.
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MY PROCESS
I am often asked how I decide what to paint and what I envision or want to convey when I start. Art doesn’t feel like deciding anything. I see something I love, something catches my eye and I start to paint. I go to where I’m drawn. It then paints itself and becomes something new through that process while still being connected to that original inspiration. I’m not an intellectual painter. I don’t have a lot of thought about why I do what I do, why I decided to do this and not that. I do it because I love it, it feeds me and I feel great.
The creative process is more about starting with a moment of interest and being there to see what it has to say. Creativity, for me, is about expression, about co-creating with something outside of myself in order to expand. It is not about creating a ‘perfect’ piece. Enough of life is about performing. It’s about actually having fun and expressing so that you end up knowing yourself and the world in a new way. It is refreshing, enlivening, and joyful. It is a task of opening up, not following guidelines.
Each person has their own unique way of being creative. For me, it’s usually color and feeling. I see color where it’s not, or more where there is. When I remember things, it’s with more vibrancy than what the eye sees. That vibrancy is often from a feeling I get about the person, object, or view. I paint my internal view of what I experience as much as I paint the external, revealing other aspects about what is viewed.
About THE ARTIST
I have painted since I was in elementary school. I started painting with my mom’s best friend who was an artist and taught art out of her home. She was such a lovely nurturing person that I fell in love with painting. It became a refuge throughout my life and a way to process and integrate life, as well as see it in a new way.
I am not someone who has trained with numerous experts over the years. I have had two key teachers. The first to lead me to fall in love with art and the second, to help me express that love more fully technically as well as emotionally.