Currently...
Shifting Sand (2004) is currently being shown in the online exhibition Essence of Asia: Eastern Influences on Western Art (Reflect-Arts, Inc.). Click here to see the Reflect-Arts online gallery.
Basalt (2006) (see right) will be shown in the San Diego Art Institutue's 49th International Exhibit from April 29 - June 10, 2007. Click here for the SDAI website.
All my artwork is for sale: I would rather have it in people's homes than piled up in my studio! If you're interested in buying or commissioning a painting, please click here.
About My Work
Extensive travel through Asia, Europe and North America and exposure to artwork during my childhood shaped my decision to become an artist. I am influenced by new landscapes, shapes, colors, and light. I currently live in
My paintings suggest the presence of land, of indefinite, ephemeral places. These references to landscape are the concrete, recognizable, grounding element of their undefined atmospheres. I seek to create balance between varying degrees of land mass, color, form, perspective, and light.
Similarly, my creative process contains varying degrees of control: Pools of water and various media converge, meld, repel and dry before I select the forms and colors that suggest the image I seek. I select materials that I find precious and intimate: found objects, pigment, ink, wood, and paper.
My work changes as I move through the personal journey of making art, but the creation of my paintings is consistently the result of meditative ritual: I assume a habitual position on a cushion in front of an altar-like table and bend over my work, initiating a private, one-on-one relationship with my artwork.
