I go to art and art history to study the visual language of humans. Artists remind me that the world is full of poetry.

I have always loved looking at the world through the eyes of other artists. I feel the thick silty water in Monet’s sunlit ponds, the love and hope in Chagall’s floating brides and grooms, and the keen sense of design in Georgia O’Keeffe’s flowers, city paintings and landscapes. O’Keeffe is a master who simplifies, edits and eliminates details to present the essence of her experience.

I am working with abstraction of form and geometric shapes. This choice allows me to concentrate on the relationship of colors, edges, textures, values and shapes. I hope what I paint holds the viewer and allows them to enjoy the colors as they change from light to dark, warm to cool. To sense the surface as smooth or rough. To move through the space created by shapes and between them as edges disappear and boundaries are defined.

In my studio I put on gloves before I start to work. When I am finished, I clean each brush with care and put the caps on the paint. The studio is a place I can experiment and take risks. I have studied and made art my whole life. I learn something with every new work. I want to share my creations with everyone. Artmaking has given me a bridge to people.

When I create abstract art I think of relationships between elements. I apply the principles of design to organize those elements. Throughout these works I use repetition with variation in color, size, shape and value. I am currently working in acrylic paint on various surfaces. I enjoy mixing colors and finding ways to create both harmony and contrast.

I want to communicate my love of visual language, to have the viewer experience each painting like a musical passage that takes them through time and space and moves them from place to place.