After many years of working mostly in two dimensions in mixed media, about ten years ago I began to explore various ways of letting the materials speak for themselves, to step off the paper or canvas and inhabit real space. This led to a progression of small-scale mixed media sculpture, using both human-made and natural materials. I also continue to often work on a flat surface, using some combination of paint, collage, ink, graphite and, most recently, textiles. As a result, it may look to some viewers as though several artists are going in different directions here, but I hope that a common thread will emerge as you browse through the site.

My work has evolved from an engagement with nature from early childhood on, and a study of energy and awareness through Eastern spiritual traditions through most of my adult life. By working mostly with abstract forms, I hope to encourage the viewer to feel the aliveness within them that is beyond categories and labels.

In working with different materials I try to follow what they want to do, where they want to go, how they can assert their own reality. Whether I'm working with a pen on paper or putting shapes together, I'm always asking: do you want to go here? to be this? until at some point the answer comes: of course! this is who you are!