My work is about paint. It is about composition and it is about my struggle with color. I don’t ever want my viewer to believe that my paintings are recorded statements on what I think I see. Rather, I want my audience to be aware of how I have interpreted what I see and how I feel about my subject matter and how it can be transformed through paint. Being a hands-on person, I find painting to be so complex that I can rarely think my way through the process of painting. Instead, I need to feel my way through.

I enjoy rendering potentially unpicturesque motifs and everyday objects and scenes in my life. I wish to present my world as it looks today without the nostalgia and sentimentality attached to past times. In essence, my paintings are created out of my personal experiences in and observations of life as I know it and through using flat patterns and contrasting solid planes of color, I am always searching for ways to deliver the unexpected to my viewer. I have been working on a technique that makes the viewer question: Which is more important the object or the environment in which it sits?

Since graduating from the Lyme Academy, (May, 2002), I have emphasized two areas in particular in my painting. First of all, it has been most important for me to define myself beyond school-hence the statement above. Secondly, I understand the importance of continuing my education and have worked on my drawing and painting skills as applied to the figure. I continue to study with Lyme Academy alumnae and value their influence and expertise. I believe, studying the figure informs the technical aspects in all my work.