Artist Statement:

How I see things consciously began with my fascination with shapes of shadows when I was four. And they still fascinate me. Even juxtaposed with male graduate painting students as an undergraduate, I was always able to hold my own as a competent painter. I’ve always explored form and color and their interrelationships as they interact with design and line, thus giving spatial depth to what would otherwise seem like a flat surface of an abstract painting. This affords me the opportunity and freedom to play with positive and negative space, pattern and color within a composition. It is the processes that I employ that are so important to the work and to my creative mind and this gives me great pleasure. This may mean that I put a work aside for further rumination until I am ready to listen to the work and take it to its final conclusion. This involves editing and problem solving and leads to new joyful discoveries.

Artist Bio:

My entire life has been involved in creative pursuits. At the University of Iowa and University of Kansas I studied Drawing and Painting plus design and photography with a BFA in Drawing and Painting. Out of college I became the first woman photographer on the Kansas City Star Sunday Magazine. Then spent the majority of my professional life as a Producer/Director in Chicago creating large multi-screen corporate stage shows and installations. After retiring from production I established Trail Mix Studio of Colorado, becoming recognized as a Studio Furniture Designer/Maker featured in prestigious books including Fine Woodworking “Design Book Eight”, “500 Tables”, “Studio Furniture - Todays Leading Woodworkers” and many more. I was also invited to teach my craft at the college level. Along the way, I designed and built several of my houses including my current home in Santa Fe which includes a studio where I’ve returned to my original love of painting.