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Biography
I never intended to become a painter.
Since childhood I’ve had a romance with language-
poetry and storytelling have always been my canvas, words my palette.
No one was more surprised than I when I fell in love with painting.
It began when I took a class in abstract painting with my husband. We were seeking new ways to maintain our creative connection as we eased away from years of working together. After painting with thick water colour paper, soft flat brushes, gorgeous coloured acrylics---I was hooked! Painting expressed things language could not and I loved the sheer play of it. Images and colour, shape, line and texture have become my new vocabulary. During these last few years I’ve been blessed with gifted teachers and the creative companionship of my husband, Dov.
I paint to explore my relationship to myself and the world. I paint to throw open the doors of wonder, for the adventure of stepping into the unknown and the discoveries that ensue, and for the pure pleasure of it. I paint to keep my imagination limber. To feel deeply. To remind myself that anything is possible. . .including the endless, unfolding possibilities of myself. And for that special moment when my world connects, through my art and your eyes, with yours.
My art is infused with the natural world. Although I never set out to paint a landscape, nature seeps in and people see landscapes all over my work. I am a gardener, a hiker, a lover of trees and all things growing wild. That experience informs my art. I don’t paint realistically; I paint to catch the spirit of a place, a moment, a feeling.
I love everything faded and crumbling, yet hinting of a former grandeur, co-existing with the bright impudence of colour and new life. An abandoned clapboard shed, its broken roof latticed with the lush green and purple of morning glory vines. The surfaces that are abraded, scratched and scraped, torn and stained by history. Eroded, moss covered stone walls, tagged with lichen. Weathered wood fences streaked with flaking paint. You get the picture. Now come have a look. . .
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