My early work was based on the external world around me.  For a number of years I was a creative in the fashion world designing and colorizing accessories. When I returned to my first love, fine art, I started with a self-examination in the “Inner Child” series. This series opened up my creative sensibility .

Several trips to Hawaii took this further. By abstracting the landscapes, focusing on line and color, I simulated the atmosphere of the Islands, not having to replicate them, but using them as a jumping off place to create another world.

As I evolved so did my work.  Inspiration comes from  books that I read, movies that I see.  Ideas about mythology, archetypes, music, even current events are valuable triggers for creative ideas.  Using color and movement, my paintings are, in their material presence, metaphors of ethereal energy.  Reaching beyond the visual, they suggest knowing unseen depths where the message hovers just below the surface and can be revealed, suddenly in an "aha" moment or by quiet contemplation.  What gives the painting a life of its own is that everyone is seeing something differently based on their own experience, and that  transports them out of their current reality to a place they have never been.

I work in a variety of mediums. I like the blending ability of oil paint and the intense colors and malleability of acrylic. 

Pastel is the sensual experience of drawing with pure color. Currently, I am working in a new medium for me: watercolor. Both spontaneity and control are a challenge. The transparency of this medium lends itself to compositions with depth and exquisite light.

Nikola Tesla believed that  “Everything is energy and it's vibrating at a certain frequency.”  I am capitalizing on this idea when I present a mood. an emotion, place, and offer a thought-provoking question of our reality.  Some paintings will resonate with you.  When the symbols, pictograms and and marks offer you a rich awareness, the piece works for you.