ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork is about exploring layers of absence and presence lodged in memory.  I draw and paint faces, figures and objects that live in a liminal space and become vectors of blurred impressions and thoughts. The void left by an absence, the opportunity arising from an empty space and the turning of life's season are all part of a ballet between what was, what is and the ephemeral.  I am now working on a body of work called In Between where I visually express this ebb and flow with paint and other material.

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I work on paper and mylar with oil, I use encaustic and I recently added clay as a new medium.  I allow time to become

familiar with the material I use as they are the tools that enable me to develop my aesthetic language and expand my creative process.  Alternating between them feeds the source where new ideas appear and provides the opportunity to have works mirror themselves in another medium.

 

In oil I create painterly surfaces where fragile beings take form in a mode of expressive figuration.  I use encaustic to transfer charcoal drawings into the soft surface resulting in loose hazy portraits.  In clay I hand build busts and heads that become a presence in the studio, a spark for what is to come.

 

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