ARTIST STATEMENT

My artwork explores the interplay of absence and presence in the layers of memory. I draw and paint faces, figures and objects that live in a liminal space and become vectors to an ebb and flow of thoughts and impressions. The ballet between what was, what is and the ephemeral dictates the narrative content of my new body of work called In Between.       

 

I develop my visual language with oil paintings, encaustic image transfers and clay sculptures. In the paintings fragile beings take form in a mode of expressive figuration, loose and hazy portraits are borne out of drawing transfers into the soft surfaces of encaustic and the clay busts and heads I hand build mirror the figures I create.  All these pieces nourish my creative process, and infusing each one with a life of their own is what keeps me creating.