Artist Statement

My brain whirls with possibilities as I navigate this life. The motivation for my work comes from questioning others plus my internal examination. I look around me and I am , amazed, disappointed as well as intrigued with the creativity that abounds. I find both excitement and fear when I contemplate creating an artwork.

The artworks that speak to a deep inner part of me are usually associated with fibers in some form. I have a passion for sticks...not just any sticks but ones that have a smooth surface.  Fibers as seen in books, collages, sculptures, or wood tug at my interior voice asking that I work with them.

My artistic practice is based on construction rather than illusory methods like drawing or painting or reductive methods like carving. Manipulating different textures and layers together to create a new surface brings joy. My studio overflows with paper mache’, sticks, paper, books, and a variety of fibers from found to manufactured.

I am rediscovering me into the artist that I was in college. For 38 years I facilitated others in the classroom to find their voice.  Now my challenge is to find the ways to be clear and purposeful about my voice. 

My work is based on the ordinary parts of life, the voice and the script of the journey and metaphorically expose them.... not as a signpost but more as a reminder of the basic human truth.