Artist Statement

I have been creating art since early childhood and it is an integral part of my being.  Through the years I have moved from idea to idea, always adding information and growing in understanding and artistic technique.  My journey has taken me many places including printing, stone carving, poetry, collage, teaching, dancing and many other exciting tangents from my central concentration of painting.  I now am continuing my experimenting with gold foil over pixelated images painted in acrylic.  This series, called “Apparitions” examines how and why we see things the way we do.  Our incredible brains fill in missing information in broken and hidden shadows to restore the original image.  But does it?  What have we filtered through our own individual experiences and what have we done with the basic information? I hope you enjoy these paintings as you ponder these questions.