PAINTING

My painting practice allows for immersion into a world

of vibrant hues and complex compositions.

Through painting, I draw from the wells of everyday experiences, letting my intuition and imagination guide me. My subjects for painting are the landscapes that lie within and for which the painting process makes visible. While compositions are driven by formal concerns and sensory responses to paint, I remain open to the motifs and symbolic associations that emerge in the painting process.
In beginning a painting, I often paint linear elements and shapes that gradually become more defined in a rich layering of paint and surface allowing compositions and imagery to emerge. Such imagery often includes figural, architectural, animal and landscape motifs.
Transparent layerings of paint reveal new forms to pursue. Along the way, refinements are made to the compositions, yet, imperfections often remain, such as, wavering lines and edges, not-so-perfect-shapes, lopsided compositions, and other visual surprises that provide for pleasurable discordances.
Titles are generated from my intuitive responses to the paintings. While not explanations, titles help to generate associations and contextualize the imagery into a lens for understanding deeper meanings behind the arrangements of color and form.
VISUAL JOURNALING
The visual journal is a creative zone to explore the personal/autobiographical and the professional, the intersectional areas of professional practice, to bring artistry into professional practice, and to think in non-linear and intuitive ways about the professional practice.
The visual journal as a research tool allows for exploring issues and questions related to professional practice using arts-based methods in ways that result in new and unexpected insights, questions and pathways.
My mixed media visual journals embrace a wide variety of subjects that include everyday life, current issues, professional identity, transitions/change, and dreams.

PAINTING

My painting practice allows for immersion into a world

of vibrant hues and complex compositions.

In beginning a painting, I often paint linear elements and shapes that gradually become more defined in a rich layering of paint and surface allowing compositions and imagery to emerge. Such imagery often includes figural, architectural, animal and landscape motifs.

Transparent layerings of paint reveal new forms to pursue. Along the way, refinements are made to the compositions, yet, imperfections often remain, such as, wavering lines and edges, not-so-perfect-shapes, lopsided compositions, and other visual surprises that provide for pleasurable discordances.

Titles are generated from my intuitive responses to the paintings. While not explanations, titles help to generate associations and contextualize the imagery into a lens for understanding deeper meanings behind the arrangements of color and form.

VISUAL JOURNALING

The visual journal is a creative zone to explore the personal/autobiographical and the professional, the intersectional areas of professional practice, to bring artistry into professional practice, and to think in non-linear and intuitive ways about the professional practice.

The visual journal as a research tool allows for exploring issues and questions related to professional practice using arts-based methods in ways that result in new and unexpected insights, questions and pathways.

My mixed media visual journals embrace a wide variety of subjects that include everyday life, current issues, professional identity, transitions/change, and dreams.