About

My journey as an artist began early in life with a vivid imagination. That original thinking propelled my life’s journey. After studying and practicing psychotherapy, we raised our children. Fast forward to the kids leaving home, and my search for knowledge of how to paint began. I let my imagination run wild. I tried everything immersing myself in oils, acrylics, pastels, and finally arriving at inks.

I use watercolor paper or unprimed linen canvas when creating my works. My work can be a medium or mixed media, bringing in oils or acrylics or even colored pencils to highlight the finished work. I think the best description of my work is abstract expressionism.

Abstract expressionist painting allows for free-flowing and intuitive creativity. All focus is on the image, while all distractions fall away in the middle of creating. It is at once freeing, healing, invigorating, stimulating, frustrating, and maddening but, in the end, hopefully fully satisfying. The content is usually not the intention, but it can drive the final painting. Sometimes I don’t know what will emerge until it shows itself. And now I can add the thrill of discovery.