My paintings are about color, surprise, absurdity and encounters with the self. Forms collide and transformed fragments merge to become new elements as I investigate the world of space and place. Jettisoned in a soupy field of color, they join and evolve emerging as humorous, sometimes grotesque forms that exist in a luscious mysterious environment of their own making.

These paintings are constructions based in part, on the wild overgrown woodland vegetation that surrounds my home, the interior world of my mind and the lively images in my grandaughters’ drawings.

I seek to illuminate the domain between abstraction and the strangulated forms of representation that lie in the painter space between entity and figment.

My works on paper are combinations of watercolor, acrylic, and gouache, generated from multiple sources.  Ideas such as fairy tales and nursery rhymes offer ways to encounter my playful and mischievous nature. Delight in the making is left visible as drips and splatters speak to the urgency and the immediacy of my process. Bright colors and shapes are pushed in a seemingly haphazard fashion and collide, forming strange juxtapositions. The final, but equally pleasurable, act involves double-entendre titles which enhance the meaning through playful subversion.

 Photography allows me the unique opportunity to create self portraits and to examine the world of history, memory, fact and fiction. Created in series, rather than in the singular, I examine the world of theater in which I play, direct and act in these works. The props — personal, found, and occasionally oddly ambiguous elements — serve to inspire and engender this photographic world. Through melancholy and pensive reflection, I search for the soft gesture, the plaintive, the tender, and the ephemeral that yield suggestions of twilight and transition.