Statement

My paintings are attempts at coherent response to situations I find stunning. Light bounces over the subjects, both close and at a great distance. It comes to our eyes as a pattern of color. To our brains and our hearts, as a sensation. We want to keep looking and feeling. I hope for my paintings to have a similar pull.

My work is based on observing nature, which gives a tasty vocabulary within the language of color. I work this language to make a light, a captivating order. There may be narration, humor, solace, evocation and representation in the paintings, but I want these to be a sensed and a human experience, not just a description.

One collector told me, after looking at paintings all day, she still wants to look at mine, more than when she first bought them. A writer calls the paintings visceral. These compliments mean the most to me because they best convey what draws me into painting, and what I hope others find in my work: the magnet like draw to look at something because it renews us, and physicality associated with what we see.

Bio

I hold a BFA from Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art), and an MFA from the University of Michigan. My work is in collections throughout this country and in the UK. I teach at the college and elementary school levels, as well as privately. I live on the Maine Coast with my family, and love to be outdoors.