Upcoming Events in 2023
Belmont Fair
Portland, OR
9/3
Corvallis Fall Festival
Downtown Corvallis, OR
9/23-9/24
Issaquah Salmon Days
Downtown Issaquah, WA
10/7-10/8
Best of the Northwest
Magnuson Park
Seattle, WA
11/10-11/12
Belmont Fair
Portland, OR
9/3
Corvallis Fall Festival
Downtown Corvallis, OR
9/23-9/24
Issaquah Salmon Days
Downtown Issaquah, WA
10/7-10/8
Best of the Northwest
Magnuson Park
Seattle, WA
11/10-11/12
About the Artist
I am lucky to have a studio in my home. My favorite time to paint is early in the morning when no one else is awake. Usually I have already spent time in the middle of the night working on my paintings in my mind-changing colors, minimizing or enhancing shapes, altering composition.
I spend a lot of time outside and take photographs that are often inspiration for my work. I work on many paintings simultaneously. I paint with acrylic because of its flexibility. I love texture and work hard to build complex layering through scrubbing, sanding, and applying layers of washes. I work on my paintings in all directions and am open to it becoming something I had not intended. I stand and listen to music and move myself, the paint, and the canvas around and have recently come to realize that it feels like dancing. I work on them until I feel as though I have nothing left to say, but they are never really done. I don’t paint pretty pictures, I paint who I am.
I spend a lot of time outside and take photographs that are often inspiration for my work. I work on many paintings simultaneously. I paint with acrylic because of its flexibility. I love texture and work hard to build complex layering through scrubbing, sanding, and applying layers of washes. I work on my paintings in all directions and am open to it becoming something I had not intended. I stand and listen to music and move myself, the paint, and the canvas around and have recently come to realize that it feels like dancing. I work on them until I feel as though I have nothing left to say, but they are never really done. I don’t paint pretty pictures, I paint who I am.