My Artistic Journey
I made paintings and drawings for many years, and after moving to Seattle in 1999, my painted images became larger than life people in urban park settings called my Urban Park Series. This was a turning point in my painting life. I gained some recognition of my work in a few Seattle galleries and as part of the Swedish Hospital collection-the cancer wing.
When I started my writing journey, I wrote about my paintings. I saw art in the words and words in the art. Images informed my writing. And writing informed my images. My artwork reflected the world as I saw it and felt it—Each piece was a journey into storytelling through paint, capturing raw emotion and everyday beauty.
The Almeda Fire Sept. 8, 2020, reduced to ashes over 2,600 buildings including our home. My art was destroyed. Many manuscripts destroyed. It took seventeen months to rebuild and, in that process, I decided that having a lot of inventory on hand was foolish, but I had to find a way where I could continue making art. Shortly after moving into the newly build house, I came across a nifty little iPad where I could make digital images and turn them into prints. It took me back to my old college printmaking days where I would play in the field of pure abstraction.
I love the immediacy and the immensity of pure abstraction. The colors, the textures. It’s been extremely rewarding to make these prints available to you Each of these prints is for sale for $125 as an un-matted, unframed print, each with a one-inch border, printed on acid free paper. They’ll be in a limited edition of 20 and each will come to you with a certificate of authenticity.
To view the collection, please explore the gallery section here. If you’d like to make a purchase, reach out to me in the Contact Me section. Each piece is printed on demand, then sent to me to be numbered and signed before it goes out to you.