My early training in abstraction was in music and dance. I studied piano from childhood and earned keyboard and music history degrees at university. As an adult, I returned to Berkeley to study painting. Like many, I was immediately drawn to figurative work as the most interesting subject but soon left that behind for my love of the outdoors and nature.
My paintings are concerned with a feeling of the openness of large spaces whether in nature or one’s imagination. I hope the viewer also senses a passage of time, by the pace at which one looks at a work and the excavation of paint layers in the work itself.
Over the years I’ve experimented with three dimensional painting in the form of freestanding wooden obelisks, as well as with wood panels on which one can ‘excavate’ by sanding through layers of paint. Recently, I have returned to stretched and un-stretched linen as well.