MY STUDIO is at
2711 Main #114. You are welcome to visit by appointment.
When you arrive, please park in Art Supply parking lot, enter the Art Supply store
& ask for me.
See map to my studio
My painting process involves painting many layers of
mixed-media on paper. Mixed-media means I am free to reach for whatever art material will
allow me to get the effect I want. I begin with waterbased paint on 100% rag paper.
On "High Altitude" and "Flowing Water" I began with watercolor.
The other paintings I began with acrylic. Sometimes I add colored pencil or oil
pastel...and then, more paint on top of that. I love the pieces that just peek through,
without being obvious.
I might collage textured papers or music into a painting. In
"Nature's Patterns" I collaged a large piece of marbled paper that I had marbled
with acrylic paint. By marbling the paper myself, I have control of the color and the
pattern. And when I do add collage to a painting, I always paint several layers of acrylic
over the collaged area to integrate it and make it truly a part of the painting.
Frequently I add rich texture by printing with blocks in
which I have carved patterns of symbols.
When I am painting, I lose all track of time. I get totally
lost in the painting. Painting is a meditative, spiritual process for me. The painting
tells me what it wants to be and my hands respond. Perhaps the symbols add to the
spirituality. The painting also lets me know when it is complete. Occasionally I will make
an intellectual decision that a painting is finished, but I always wind up adding at least
a little more before I am able to sign it and release it. My mixed media paintings have at
least 6 layers, and frequently many more.
The paper size is 30" tall x 22" wide. When framed
with a 5" wide mat, they are large enough to make a wonderful impact in any space.
These paintings come from my own memories...places I have been, things I have seen, and
sometimes things I have visualized or imagined.
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