My work is inspired by my curiosity and experience of the natural world, mainly the temperate deciduous forests, lakes, and rivers of the Berkshires, where I live. In my drawings, paintings, sculptures, and collages, I explore pattern, color, line, texture, and materiality. My interest is two-fold. I am interested in exploring the tactility and behavior of materials - water-based inks and paints, oils, papers, encaustic and wax, clay, and materials found in nature - while also exploring concepts, such as time, place, the journey, remnants, imperfection, wholeness, the individual and the collective, and imprint. My visual language often includes the constructs of the grid, uniform shapes such as circles, and multiples of objects. These elements often represent individuals, bodies. A librarian by training and by day, documentation and archival principles inform my work. My color palette is increasingly moving towards subdued colors selected and foraged from my natural surroundings. With these devices, I aim to explore the relationship between uniform structure and the organic, nature and nurture, order and chaos, and the spiritual and mundane. I view my art making as a spiritual practice and as life informs art, art informs life. I wish for my work to visually represent this concept, convey this truth, and/or serve as artifact of the process.
