About Me

Artist’s Statement

Art transcends.  Like poetry, it provides the voice that we all hear and sense through collective experience deep in our DNA dating back to our ancient ancestors.  Through a memory we can’t recall, our hearts know so much more than we could ever believe.  True art speaks to that part of us, the knowing part, the one that is on a constant journey to our own beginnings –only to see it for the first time.  Images of nature bring us more than just references of beauty; but rather, of true abundance.  It’s not a reminder as a hope and dream, but a deep knowing that surely this is our own true essence.  Abundance of grace, inescapable beauty, natural flow, and the truth of our connection to all that is, is laid out before us just for the claiming.  Abundance that is our essence.  Through this dance with imagery and collective memory, we see and sense our own effortless possibilities.

As a Native American descendant, I have always related strongly to nature and particularly to water.  Both water and ponds have been a subject of focus for many years, but recently landscape has worked its way into my heart. My journey has been from the micro to the macro, and here I am at this transition.  Whereas most of my earlier work was the close-up study, it has now moved to include qualities of atmosphere and the grander view.  It’s a challenge I welcome and embrace like a new love.  One consistency will forever remain though—and is what is most profound in art for me—the deep connection to and sacred space of creation and creativity.  This force and energy is what gives rise to imagination resulting in not only the manifestations our deepest longings, but also the key to our own being.  Every single blade of grass and rocky hill is singing this song.  I just want to hum along.