Let Us Entertain You

 I started drawing the human figure at three years old.   I started drawing very young and have loved it most of my life.  I started painting devotedly in 1993, first with watercolor and moved to acrylic in 1995.  In 2012, I started experimenting with oils and pastels, as well and I love the intensity of the color they both offer. I am currently doing a mix of acrylic background with oil on top of it.  Painting is a very physical, almost musical, experience for me. Even if I spend days and weeks on a piece, I hope to always exemplify the fervor of artistic invention and to glorify playful experimentation.  Truthfully, the physical application of paint and the physical act of digging into wet paint with a palette knife or even a paintbrush handle excites me.  I enjoy doing portraits and figures that suggest the idea of an underlying rhythm or continual motion that is in the common moments of everyday life. I use rich, bold, expressive colors because I believe color incites longing and depicts angst and provokes revelry.  

I am involved in a very exciting project right now with my work. I am using female models who are also friends of mine. We are seeking together to unlock and unfold the natural beauty and unlock feminine boldness with different poses, dramatic lighting, and confident vulnerability. The history of art is filled with men’s viewing of women as art objects. I am suggesting with my work that as women look at each other through the lenses of friendship and sisterhood, there is potential for a unique expression. I, also, continue to work on figure paintings that I can use as a more personal narrative for my emotional life, my joys, and sorrows, which are very common to all people.