The compelling motivations in my work are about how to navigate the human experience of constant change and transformation while finding home in the world of form. The foundation of my research has to do with uncovering patterns that reveal interconnectedness and that provide grounds for harmonious living. I am interested in systems, how they reveal truth and how they appear in the particularity of things. Thanks to the learning opportunities provided by a series of illnesses, surgeries, and traumas in my developmental years, I necessarily embarked on a lifelong journey to develop a system for survival. Rooted in simplicity and sustainability, expressions of this system is my art praxis.
My belief in the power of connecting to nature as a way to heal and positively shape society fuels my ongoing research, where I aim to discover- through drawing, painting and social practice- how to promote sustainability, preservation and appreciation for the natural environment. A lifelong study of Yoga informs and is informed by all I do. Gratitude is the thread throughout all experience of relationships. At the heart of my life and work is the practice of awareness and humility in the face of nature’s omnipresent power. How can the relationships of scale, shape, color, space and form in visual language awaken in the viewer/participant a recollection of his or her inherent interconnectedness and dependence on nature? How can the languages of community engagement, teaching and ritual ever center the human mind in simplicity and wisdom?
My art practice involves immersing myself in nature daily while running, hiking, swimming and walking. I carry a sketchbook and camera with me, engaging in the world around me through drawing, writing, and photography, meticulously exploring subjects and compositional strategies. I make hundreds of drawings and paintings. Like daily asana practice, the process of making- where the exploration of pattern and repetition, negative and positive, complexity and emptiness- is a moving meditation. These small and intimate formats often installed in grids are like prayer flags, readily accessible reminders of what is essential. Through larger scale works, sometimes extending across many panels, I explore ways to express my need to expand awareness and share my exuberance for the life force.
Having lived in Rome for several years, the aesthetic influences of my work owe much to Italian art and the European landscape tradition. My spiritual journey has been gratefully influenced by powerful women artists, writers and mystics, as well as spiritual teachers and peace makers, journalists, and ecological/social activists. My work is equally rooted in the Bay Area movement and contemporary landscape painting. I attempt to reconcile the abstract nature of painting with its representational role while maintaining the emotive impetus for the subject. My visual choices explore how form embodies space and my own relationship to actual and pictorial space. Both cultivated as well as natural spaces provide the visual and experiential framework for investigation. Rather than a specific geographic location, my subject choices are generalized and aim to elicit a personal recollection of experience in the world. We want to protect what we fall in love with.
My belief in the power of connecting to nature as a way to heal and positively shape society fuels my ongoing research, where I aim to discover- through drawing, painting and social practice- how to promote sustainability, preservation and appreciation for the natural environment. A lifelong study of Yoga informs and is informed by all I do. Gratitude is the thread throughout all experience of relationships. At the heart of my life and work is the practice of awareness and humility in the face of nature’s omnipresent power. How can the relationships of scale, shape, color, space and form in visual language awaken in the viewer/participant a recollection of his or her inherent interconnectedness and dependence on nature? How can the languages of community engagement, teaching and ritual ever center the human mind in simplicity and wisdom?
My art practice involves immersing myself in nature daily while running, hiking, swimming and walking. I carry a sketchbook and camera with me, engaging in the world around me through drawing, writing, and photography, meticulously exploring subjects and compositional strategies. I make hundreds of drawings and paintings. Like daily asana practice, the process of making- where the exploration of pattern and repetition, negative and positive, complexity and emptiness- is a moving meditation. These small and intimate formats often installed in grids are like prayer flags, readily accessible reminders of what is essential. Through larger scale works, sometimes extending across many panels, I explore ways to express my need to expand awareness and share my exuberance for the life force.
Having lived in Rome for several years, the aesthetic influences of my work owe much to Italian art and the European landscape tradition. My spiritual journey has been gratefully influenced by powerful women artists, writers and mystics, as well as spiritual teachers and peace makers, journalists, and ecological/social activists. My work is equally rooted in the Bay Area movement and contemporary landscape painting. I attempt to reconcile the abstract nature of painting with its representational role while maintaining the emotive impetus for the subject. My visual choices explore how form embodies space and my own relationship to actual and pictorial space. Both cultivated as well as natural spaces provide the visual and experiential framework for investigation. Rather than a specific geographic location, my subject choices are generalized and aim to elicit a personal recollection of experience in the world. We want to protect what we fall in love with.