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.
My artmaking began in early childhood as dabbles. I dabbled for years with portraits, figurative, pure abstractions in oil, multi-media on canvas, printmaking, yielding several shows, several corporate collections, and private collections. Lately, digital art is my medium of choice since a devastating fire swept through my community of Talent, Oregon in early fall of 2020, which turned everything to ash, including my collected and recent artwork. The fire, fragmentation, and chaos-seeking-order have been predominant themes in my artwork. I like to think of them as poetic references.
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 $250 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.