ARTIST STATEMENT

Painting, for me, is about bringing heightened awareness to what I see and what I imagine. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / GALLERIES

Fleisher Art Gallery - Philadelphia, PA
Shambhala Center - Philadelphia, PA
Wyndmoor Artists - Philadelphia, PA
Studio 5 Art Gallery - Ashland, OR
Vagabond Rose - Chico, CA
Paschal Gallery - Talent, OR

BACKGROUND

I fell in love with painting during a private class in Dallas, Texas where I grew up. I was 19. I spent the next four years as an Interior Design major at Pratt Institute, taking fine art classes on the side. Over the years, I continued to paint as I pursued busy art-related careers. While working in New York as a designer, I completed an MFA at NYU Graduate School of Film and Television. I worked for 20 years in the film industry and as a musician and songwriter for a theater company.

But I always returned to painting where I found calmness, play and sustained passion. Art transports me into heightened awareness and enables me to "see".

In 1995, I left New York for Philadelphia and began working for myself, both as a painter and organizing consultant. As I helped people organize their homes and offices to create simpler lives, I myself was creating a simpler lifestyle with more time to paint and study art. In 2004, I moved to Southern Oregon, a never-ending source of inspiring landscapes and artist camaraderie. I live with my partner David Lorenz Winston, a talented photographer, and our miniature poodle Kali.