A Peek Into My Process

I love oil paint. It is earthy, gritty, elemental, ethereal, like air, like dirt. It helps me to convey the experience of what inspires me in the fluctuating, and enduring forces of nature.

Through layers of mark making, pushing, pulling, dragging and scrubbing through paint, I build and excavate. I cultivate a sense of the forces of change inherent in the natural world.

My process is driven by complete fascination with color. I rarely know what a painting will become as I begin. It builds, layer upon layer, accumulating texture, depth and the unexpected. I enter into an exploration of form and formlessness, inner and outer universes.

Physicality, emotion, memory, intuition, time and timelessness are all wound up together.

For me the mysterious sources of life are compelled to be expressed, through the elements and the pleasures of paint.

Training

I have a Master of Fine Arts from the School Of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions Include

Hubbard Street Gallery - solo show

Chicago Public Library Cultural Center-Group Show

Artemisia Gallery- Group show

Evanston Art Center- Group show

Illinois School of Professional Psychology- Solo show

D Gallery, Evanston- two person show

Wellspring Integrative Health, Evanston- Solo show

Cafe Selmarie, Chicago- Solo show

Generations Yoga Studio, Wilmette- Solo show

Bloom Yoga Studio, Chicago- Solo Show

Gallery OTR. Group Shows

Gallery OTR, Solo show

Curated into Greycube online gallery show, “Blue”, Nov 2023