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About Me
Inspiration:
I am inspired by the landscape around me, places I’ve traveled to but more so places I’ve lived. l love knowing the view of the valley from the top of the hill above my house, the path through the woods where I walk my dogs every day, that one cedar tree that bends just so. I am inspired by the idea of the feral female who both surrenders to and dominates the wild, the idea that the magic of the wilderness could capture one’s psyche and free it from itself, or the civilized world, or Sunday school. I like exploring contradictions between eroticism and innocence, ecstasy and melancholy, fantasy and reality, the individual and every woman. I love 17th century depictions of Mary Magdalene in ecstasy, soft female figures by Bouguereau, Wangechi Mutu’s depictions of female forms in collage, the gritty figures of Egon Schiele, photos of brothels and hookers from the old West, Lisa Yuscavage’s mysterious ladies, and Henry Darger’s illustrated tale of a child slave rebellion. I am inspired by our relationships with animals, soil, food. I have Great Danes who inspire me every day to live in the moment and run around in the woods.
Techniques:
I make paintings mostly in oil on canvas primed with acrylic gesso. I use poppy and walnut oil and turpentine. As I learned to paint in watercolor, I like applying watercolor techniques with oil paint. Sometimes I work with several layers of glazes on top of a monochromatic ground. Other times I use very little paint on the surface of the canvas.
