Through abstract work in acrylic, watercolor, monotype, collage, and mixed media, I create work that brings to life my visceral feelings and memories of light and color from a lifetime of gardening, exploring, and living in the varied natural environments of North America.

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Natural light is fluid and constantly changing. Outdoors, away from artificial light, color is in constant motion. As garden writer and deep observer of color, Lorane Edwards Forkner said so well, “This makes color slippery, an ever-changing, almost sentient presence in our environment… colors don’t sit still…[they] flow, bounce, vibrate, or hum.”

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I work improvisationally and experimentally to create vibrant colorscapes with textural body and movement. I explore until I come to a place where the work has a joyful color resonance that can transport me into the bodily feelings and sense-memory I am trying to convey.

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When I hit that joyful color and textural resonance, viewers are drawn in, getting close to examine the layers and entering their own sense-memories. My work provides a place of calm where viewers can enter the subconscious, free associate, and come out feeling joyful and refreshed or energized by their own memories.