ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Using various media, I explore the individuality of faces and figures.  For me, a portrait is the ultimate challenge for an artist, potentially conveying divinity, hierarchy, and other human traits. 

Through the expression of attitudes, eccentricities and vanities, I hope to reveal my subjects’ tribulations, fantasies and accomplishments, I seek to express humor and solicit laughter by adding elements of irony, surprise or incongruity to portraits.

My most recent collage art deals with the subjects of personality and experience.  My images are sometimes facetious, disturbing and/or ironic.  I leave it to the viewers to interpret the meaning and motivation.

Although I consciously portray what I see, the result sometimes reveals more than planned.  I especially like watercolor as a medium because it flows with a life and a spirit that can’t always be controlled.  I characterize my style as painterly realism, sometimes surrealism, hopefully with an edge.  

In conclusion, I am a “neo-post-modern-reactionary-liberal-feminist-seeker of origin and destiny–portraitist” searching for the source, essence and elements of identity.  Since I recently got an unexpected award for plein air landscape, I may need to add another adjective.  How about “outsider?”

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