
I am an artist, photographer, and life coach based in Connecticut. I've been drawing, painting and photographing since I could hold a pencil. And just as I did when I was in gradeschool, I paint what I see in the most real colors I can find. Growing up on the Missouri River surrounded by miles and miles of rolling hills, flatlands, bluffs, sink holes and huge stretches of limestone banks and caves carved by the river’s millennial movement gave me patience and identity. I came East when I fell in love with the silicate rocks and miles of stone walls that give New England its character. Now, looking into the amazing landscape of the Hudson Valley, I feel at home.
Mostly I like to skip brushes and paint with my hands or maybe a pallet knife - maybe even a plunger from which my vet removed the needle. I also like to start a painting with a monoprint. Putting paint onto something that won't absorb it, I like to see what shapes fall into the paper. What gets left out and what remains. What's an outline and what looks like something. I go from there.
I love to draw in pen and ink too. I use both hands in all my work and most times it's as if more than one person is inhabiting my body and the painting takes its shape from whatever the mixture of ideas and attitudes is in control.