Bio:
Although I have lived in the Northwest my entire adult life, I was raised among the grapefruit trees in a small blue-collar town in Southern California. My heritage dates back to my maternal great-grandparents’ 1900 citrus and avocado groves. A kumquat tree, the smell of eucalyptus, this is my history and culture.
Artist Statement:
Music is the space between the notes
– Debussy
My work is about the sensual shape of a fig and haikus about persimmons, the integral negative space between it all.
I am interested in flattened shapes and the relationship between shapes, the shape of the space between shapes, the negative space, and the tension of the shapes and the edge of the image. Negative space: the music between the notes, the space between the shapes.
The arch of a madrona branch, the gesture of a line, the found beauty of a ring left by a coffee cup. I like the act of making a mark, the movement of the wrist and arm, the shoulder; of seeing the interaction of a mark in its space; of responding to marks with marks.
