Artist Statement

My visual language is multidisciplinary, with a focus on painting and printmaking. Concepts of personal place making, and a collective consciousness of what we have come to understand about our belonging in the world are developed through reading texts about human/environmental relationships, and immersive field research experiences. I sketch, paint, photograph, and write about what I observe and experience while various making processes facilitate the visual communication. What one medium offers, often informs another, creating a chain reaction of paintings, installation works, print based work, and sculpture.

In her book The Enchanted Life, Sharon Blackie discusses the idea of place making as “being intrinsic to our being” and for the “need to make sense of, and find meaning in, our relationship to the places we inhabit, as it is a fundamental and universal part of the human journey in this world.” It is through the processes of observation and making where I find a sense of belonging.