My goal as an artist is to affect my viewers on as many levels as possible - emotional, intellectual and spiritual. I spent many years as a teacher of dance and drama before creating my visual art full time. I have always found that my experiences in choreographing and directing have been very compatible with my work in painting and printmaking. The paper or canvas I work on is like a stage. The forms and shapes I create are the dancers or actors, the colors are their costumes. And the same use of space, line, and rhythm I used to move performers around the stage, now move the eye of the viewer around the work of art. I know that viewers of art bring something of themselves to their experience of looking at painting; as their experiences change, so too, will their interaction with the painting. I like that. In that way my pictures continue to live and grow even after they are “finished.”

In addition to creating my own work, I have been teaching art to students at Learning for Life Charter School in Marina for the past 19 years. It brings me much joy encouraging the blossoming creativity in these young people.