ARTIST’S STATEMENT

    “My current work is about the natural world and the mental landscape. I'm interested in animals, plants, and the relationships between individuals and communities that are undergoing transformation, and particularly the relationship that human beings have with all of the aforementioned. Our psychology draws many of it's symbols from nature. I am abstracting what I see in the environment and giving it new form in my art in order to call attention to the processes of life, to emphasize the continual action of altercation and adaptation that living things undergo, to try to capture a sense of life in motion. When I started college, I planned to major in marine biology. That interest took a new turn when I became an artist. I like to keep experimenting with new techniques, making the act of painting or sculpting a means of discovery. In part, making art is for me a way of keeping the sense of wonder alive, wonder about the world around us and about our own internal psyches as well.”