About

ARTIST STATEMENT

My recent artworks in the series Northern Spring are mixed media collages on paper. These show the influence of my relocation from Washington, D. C. to rural Maine, where I grew up. The collages include watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, graphite, and found materials often U.S. Geological Survey maps of Maine locations. Look closely and you will note cutout images that are mounted to project from the surface.

Images come from a variety of sources - the word lists I begin with each new painting, objects that I collect, images I have scavenged from other artist’s work, drawings from my travels. I have traveled repeatedly to Japan as a Fulbright teacher and South Korea bringing home patterned fabric and papers that appear in my work. Surrealist artists and contemporary artists are a great influence on my practice.

Currently, I am in process on a series with the working title, Northern Birds which the completed artwork, Still Life with Cosmos and Woodpecker is the introduction. My collection of small bird sculptures along with the birds I observe when hiking the Maine woods and marshes are the inspiration for this new series.