About

Statement
 
 
I am a painter of abstract landscapes, of places felt, sensed, experienced and desired.  scenes emerge from the melding of my unconscious with nature's mountains, rocks, waters, animals and trees.  Driven to create, i am compelled to give form and color to what i know and feel, as i find no peace until the unspoken settles into it's place on canvas.  I need to make worlds that are dynamic, balanced, mysterious and seductive.  when these deeper parts of myself resonate with the viewer i have succeeded in transmitting a life spark

i begin a painting with a web of color and line and proceed to play between chaos and structure.  when pieces begins to sing, then i release these semi-geological manifestations of my unconscious into the world.  i currently explore the forest's mysterious subterranean world where minute hidden connections of life take place.  just as life is intricately connected below ground, i see myself as a bridge between each persons' hidden underground and nature's web of life that sustains us all. 

 

 

Biography

I have devoted most of my career to clay - beginning as a potter in my teens and expanding into architectural scale vessels, ceramic murals and sculpture.  I founded Terraclay Studio in Santa Monica, California in the 1980’s and have taught ceramics privately and at the community college level.  several years ago I changed my medium from clay to painting in order to find free expression in color, line, and movement where the invisible body is brought forth and given form.  

Education

B.A. Painting, Sculpture & Graphic Arts, UCLA

 

Independent Study:  Esther James, John Mason, William Shumway

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