“Symbolism arose from the need to give perceptible form to the imperceptible…out of this dimension of reality have grownart, language, myth, religion, and science.”

My interest in the images and meanings of symbols, the marks that have become language and the ground that holds them, inspires me to search into the visual and verbal images that are articulations of our contemporary culture. It is through words and images that voice is given and heard on an individual and cultural level, where the personal and universal are connected, expressed, and understood. This intellectual and creative inquiry has enhanced my exploration of images, forms, and symbols as they appear in my paintings, metaphors as they emerge in my writing and the investigation of their boundaries, differences, and similarities.
The history, present, and future of all life and is written and recorded in the organic structures of the earth. I address this narrative in my two and three dimensional work exploring and celebrating the elements. Trees, stones, earth, and senescent beings have their story to tell. The gesture of a seed sprouting or of a cell dividing shows the power, the importance, beauty, meaning, richness and exquisite fragility of life.

The texture and ground give a feeling of depth of surface Symbols, images, forms, and colors appear as integral and are superimposed and/or buried into the surface.