Fine Art Gallery

Painting: Sometimes working wet into wet and at other times wet into dry, I find watercolor often has a life of it’s own beyond what I intended. I enjoy the unpredictability of this medium. Happy accidents often occur which lend vitality to the work. My subject matter consists primarily of florals, naturescapes, and mandalas as well as various combinations of these.
Drawing: Although I use my soft pastels and colored pencils as a sketching medium, people often mistake my framed drawings for paintings. The convenience and immediacy of these sketching materials appeal to me. The soft chalk pastels especially lend themselves to being worked directly with my hands and resonate with echoes of finger painting in my childhood.
Mixed Media: I was introduced to origami when I was a child by my father, but didn’t delve into it fully until reaching mid life. Now I use it to make 3D artworks in combination with other media as well. The paradoxical qualities of paper fascinate me. It is malleable and yet quite strong at the same time. While it is folded into man-made geometric shapes, it retains it’s organic origin from plants and trees.

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