Artist's Statement...

I have been creating art for as long as I can remember. In high school I began serious fine-art painting, developing skills in both acrylics and oils. Throughout my early adulthood I continued to create real life paintings in oils. I called the paintings Travels as they were largely inspired by vintage National Geographic imagery. I was particularly drawn to children and to the elderly - people I didn’t ordinarily see everyday, doing things I didn’t ordinarily see everyday. There was a sense that I had traveled, or diminished a gap in the universe, as I immersed myself in the creation of one of these stories….unfolding, I would imagine, somewhere on the other side of the planet.
In the early ‘90’s I would begin jewelry-making; first crafting accessories from clay, then gradually incorporating other materials – wire, semi-precious stones, antique finds and trinkets, etc. Fashioning jewelry for editorials, advertisements, museums, specialty shops and celebrities, the hobby would quickly become a passion, then a profession. The jewelry line would become the life-line of my existence; its creation so all-consuming that I would forget about painting altogether….

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