While artistic creativity has been my passion since I was a child, until recently, it was only my avocation. Now, it is the central focus of my life.
Over the last four years through the USCAD program, I have made the transition from photography and fibre arts to painting. I am currently working in acrylics. I usually begin with a series of small studies on paper and then move on to panel or canvas. I have recently completed a series of eleven canvases from photographs I took while vacationing in the Cyclades Islands of Greece. The process of painting has enabled me to identify the elements that compelled me to capture the original images—the interplay of light and shadow, the intersection of line to suggest form and plane, the variety of texture and the subtle interest it instills, and the relief of negative space.
I have also become aware of the importance to me of having a visual entryway into my work—a pathway, a door, a window or simply an intriguing empty space.
I have, lately, been experimenting with abstraction and finding that, while the process is freeing and informing my representative pieces, the abstract works seem to be imbued with the same characteristic elements as the more literal ones.
I think my brush is finding its voice.