What can I say about art or the pursuit of being an artist that has not already been said? I am compelled to create paintings. I am compelled to express myself. I am compelled to experiment. I am compelled to learn.
Life is a good teacher.
I spent my young years in London, my formidable years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and my university years in Boston.
I appreciate all of the arts. I also appreciate the new. I embrace technology. I am fascinated by the new emerging social orders. I subscribe to the new ways in which people share interests and express themselves. But my art comes from a place deep within me. It is an expression of the experiences of my life and an expression about my understandings--my beliefs, if you will--on life.
I am captivated by nature. I am captivated by language. I have also been captivated by illness, having been diagnosed and treated for an aggressive breast cancer in 2010. I am a woman, first and foremost; a woman who has now experienced chemo and a bilateral mastectomy.
My hopes have to do with continued expression. Not in the actual expression, the painting, so much as in the continued enthusiasm for life, the passion for life, which compels me to art. My hope is to continue to be inspired until my dying breath.
Look at my paintings. Look at the strokes. Look at the images. Look at the feelings.
Thank you.