biography
BIRTHPLACE:
Torrance, CA 1948 EDUCATION: BFA, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA 1975 AA, College of Marin Kentfield, CA 1973 |
Primarily captivated by our emotional connection to the world around us, I’m interested in the abstracted landscape; its textures, space, color, beauty, mystical and transcendent qualities as a means of connecting to self. Though inspired by nature, I am not necessarily painting a particular place.
I find a spiritual quality in nature, especially on the California coast. That quality can be found all over the world in different seasons, weather and times of day. I usually begin a painting with a reference to some place that has inspired me but then allow myself to find different ways of “seeing” it, therefore kind of finding the picture as I paint it. It becomes a very fluid and centering process. |