I found my bliss and life’s calling as a small girl, among pastures, forests, flowers, streams, rivers, rocks, bugs and animals and fossils, inspired to express my discoveries as I marveled at Mother Nature’s endless creativity at all levels of detail.  After graduation from The Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1993, where my passions were photography and sculpture, I began to incorporate mixed media with the black and white photography and gravitated over the next decade to painting, with sculpture as my life’s companion.
 
My sculpture uses copper tubing twisting around itself in balance and cosmos relaying the energy, balance and enigma of the represented form. My painting is also three dimensional luminous abstract expressionism, containing organic shapes with energy and flow, where nature’s powerful and constant dynamism are celebrated.

My paintings are created, but not controlled, on the floor of my childhood barn in primitive and evolving layers and eruptive activity of paint, polyurethane and metallic washes that reference differing depths of volcanic lahars and molten lava flows that attract, trap, encapsulate and fossilize organic matter.  Texture is the most important and dominant feature of my paintings. Excessive globs, tongues, cracks and crevasses, from prolonged exposure to temperature and humidity variations separate and blanket each other in organic layers. Chunky transparent amber pockets contain the under layer of color and shape. Insects and plant material sometimes become trapped in the layering process, contributing to the image of creation, destruction and preservation. The color pallet is a variety of nature’s hues ranging from earth tones to gem tones. Like lava eruptions and flows that form fiery arcs, streams and rivulets the hidden surprise in my paintings is the photoluminescence that is revealed in light’s absence and my paintings provide a new perspective of color, glow, incandescence and fluid movement.
 
My works are intended to bridge between painting, sculpture and nature, what we are and what we are each predisposed to observe, pulling each of us deeper into ourselves and our essential collective awe of nature’s
Magic individually experienced.
Displaying my paintings in public buildings brings diversity and art awareness but also sends a recycle and repurpose message to all viewers.