Artist Statement
Whether it is a separation from your loved ones, nature’s unforeseen wrath, or the constant changes surrounding us, our responses to these events affect us in the most unexpected ways. In experiencing these events—particularly in our attempts to influence and control them--one finds passion, dreams, joy, anger, disappointment and sorrow. Expressing these emotions on canvas is irresistible to me—it’s why I paint. As Georgia O’Keefe said: “I found I could say things with colors that I couldn’t say in any other way, things that I had no words for”.
I love the challenge, freedom and spontaneity of abstract painting--even as countless decisions are rapidly made about composition rules, colors and values. Music and Nature’s beauty also have a profound influence on my paintings. As I paint, memories and emotions are revealed, transformed into shapes, colors, marks and lines. Even though the result is an intense personal journey, the viewer is encouraged to react to, interpret, and experience what is on the canvas in his or her own way.
Exhibits (partial):
Solo shows mounted include the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, NJ, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. and at The University of Central Florida's WOMEN’S RESEARCH CENTER, Orlando, FL. My award-winning work has been accepted at various juried art exhibits including in New York City, Art Palm Beach, Art Ovation Hotel in Sarasota, Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Boca Raton Museum Guild Gallery, Boca Raton Innovation Center. Sarasota Art Center, the Coral Springs Art Museum, FAU Living Room Theaters; The City Arts Factory, the Seminole Community College in Florida; and in NJ at the Monmouth Art Center, the Guild of Creative Art and at the Oyster Point Hotel in Red Bank, NJ. My sold paintings and commissions are in private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. and Canada.
I have been juried in as a Signature Member at the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art in FL
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