Art has always been a confidant for me, and a source of comfort. It provides me a place to search my meaning for my life. I have sought this understanding through pottery, theater, and now painting over the last 40 years formally, and longer I imagine informally. My work is the assimilation of the external world through internalization and translated into paint. The goal is to explore a moment in time, a moment away from duality, where I can feel the world as one thing of many equal parts, and find my place as part of it, then paint that moment. Probably 90% of my work is to depict that balance. I would say that I am not motivated by art itself but the need to recognize who I am. And I don’t know where to fit this in, but I want to say I love my children more than life itself. They are my source of love eternal. In a wondrous way I can’t separate life from death. The beauty of my children expands my love for the here and now in measures I can’t describe. That passion, that love, is a large portion of why I paint.
Some background…
I studied one year at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, Italy, under Nino Aimone. I studied acting in NYC with Sandra Seacat. I have a Masters in Art Education from Rochester Institute of Technology. I studied Ceramics at Hartwick College under Roberta Griffith My work has been shown in the Castle of Barolo Winery, Italy, The juried “Festteggiamo le Arti” at Nazereth College, Rochester N.Y, and the juried “Finger Lakes Exhibit” at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester N.Y.