Fall 2014: I am excited to be back to my tree trunks, revisiting this series. With Ancient Stories, I feel that I have made a leap, busted a barrier, in terms of integrating myself, my expressive energy with the landscape. I will continue on this path.
My cloud series continues. Cloudscapes are located in New work and also in Landscapes.
My integration of the landscape with expressionism continues, especially in And You and I, as well as in Unfettered.
February 2015: Many of my recent works were painted en plein air on various Florida beaches, including the abstract paintings. I think the effort to use oils when traveling and painting on the beach was worthwhile.
May 2015: Describing my new work is a challenge in that It seems that I am scattered with the various subject matters, yet I am exploring new techniques and horizons, as I look back and forward. Maybe it is the nature of change. I am most energized about the painting, Chemistry. I will most likely continue in this direction and develop the concept of wonderful, spontaneous, evanescent, beautiful energy.
OCTOBER 2016: I have been enjoying my new series of abstract expressionist paintings using highly chromatic Florida colors. In my new home and studio on the coast, my spirit is free and peaceful. Symbols and expressions in the work come and go with the lost and found edges. In my latest painting, Full Circle: 70s Remnants, I have used actual doodles and poems from the late 70s, which are especially meaningful to me currently. Thus, full circle.
NOVEMBER 2018: For my featured artist show at St Pete ArtWorks, this is my artist statement:
Feathers Show the Way…..
Oftentimes when I see birds, I experience spiritual signs. This seems to run in my family. Birds have sometimes appeared in times of deep distress and sorrow, which brought me comfort, grace and strength. I love the fleeting nature of birds, the unable-to-grasp-ness, conveying life’s mystery. Their feathers have come into my path at times of great transition and on occasions of beauty and joy. They seem to have appeared in unlikely places, bringing me delight and confidence going forward. I acknowledge these birds by collecting and treasuring their feathers. Sometimes I collage them into my oil paintings among layers of wash, glaze and cold wax. It is my hope that this body of work brings you the gift that these beautiful creatures delivered to me.
MAY 2019:
In addition to looking under “New Work”, my latest paintings can also be found under “Birds.”
I am enjoying and struggling with new techniques. I did some acrylic pours, using some ink and mixed media and most recently studying and using cold wax medium, and as usual, oils. I am focusing on compositional elements where my usual passions seem to emerge one way or another—water, trees, birds, skies, figures in motion, energy.
March 2020:
Crazy times. Fortunately, I am in a productive mode with my painting and can paint at my home studio either on the back porch or inside. I have been exploring different techniques and media, including limited palette, cold wax media, ink beginnings, building textured surfaces to start paintings, but continue to use oil.
MAY 2020:
Crazy times continue—-two months of sheltering at home. Thank God I am a painter. The constant themes in my work continue to pop up, in my abstract work as well as more impressionist, themes of the beauty of nature, especially water and flowers. I seem to have a need to convey energy and movement,wittingly and unwittingly. I think it expresses my own creative energy. I am not sure what the circles represent in my work but they keep appearing. hmmmm…unity, peace…
I continue to work in cold wax as well as traditional oil. I am exploring various color palettes, bolder than my usual but also soft palettes.
MAY 22, 2020
I have really enjoyed hearing different friends and fellow artists reactions and associations with my abstract works. They seem to become a sort of Rorschach test. I am delighted with this feedback.
Associations that people have had with the painting KINETIC BLOSSOM: “a beautiful costume swishing around a corner in the garden at midnight. I can hear the silk swish.” other comments include: has a sea feel, spring underwater, puffy floating air, floating, purple passion, magenta leading the eye, butterflies in a soft spring wind.
Associations that people have had with the painting MAGICAL MUSICAL MOTION: peonies, “fairies and magic energy at a child’s birthday party”, dancing lady, musical instruments, heavenly grace, in motion moving through space, complex powerful organism being defeated.
JUNE 2020
still sheltering due to covid. happy to paint in my outdoor porch studio these days. Statement for just sold painting, Breaking Through:
My painting merges representational references to nature and expressionist abstraction in a way that has often been described as ethereal and spiritual. Breaking Through conveys movement, emotional intensity, elusive energy, the evanescent nature of beauty. The viewer moves with the vague figures through magical layers to circles of light.
AUGUST 2020
Painting while sheltering. I cannot help but be influenced by the chaotic times. My art is intense as always. I need to see the beauty and sublime within the suffering in the world. I have painted more waterfalls, refreshing the body and soul. I have painted abstracted figures rising up, empowered.
I was happy to receive the President’s purchase award for this painting at the Morean Arts Center show, July 2021. This is now in the First Citrus Bank’s collection.
October, 2021 .This painting, Effusion, 36x36 mixed media on birch wood, received first place in the Tampa Regional Artists Abstract Exhibit. It will take up residence in the collection of Abigail Dunne-Moses of Nigeria.
February 2022
Time fies… I am still loving working with cold wax medium and oil. love the layers. love painting on gessoed birch wood. It is ready to hang as is, looks great with no need for frame. I have really enjoyed painting flowers, especially roses as studies during covid times. Flowers, water, trees figures, sky continue to fuel my soul which are expressed in my fully abstract paintings.
Winter Textures 20x20 mixed media on birch wood. recently sold
February 2022
I am thrilled that 5 of my paintings and two drawings have been selected by Titiloye Ashamu of Ethnikologie, Lagos, Nigeria. They are currently available.
September, 2022. Some of my newest works can be found under Archives/Sold Work.