I was born in New York City and moved to the Bay Area in 1972. My primary interests have always been art and psychology, and in 1978 I received a Master of Arts in Art Therapy from Lone Mountain College (now a part of SFU). After a short time as an art therapist, teacher, and a stint in social research, I began devoting myself to painting full time, developing and showing my mostly two dimensional art.
I have explored painting, printmaking, drawing and ceramic sculpture.
The influences on my work have been wide and varied. Coming of age in New York in the 60’s I absorbed Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. In California the Bay Area School and a group of artists at UC Davis were prominent. My work has ranged through many styles from Pop Realism to Gestural Abstraction.
I tend to work in series which have a cohesive media, style and philosophical orientation, becoming ever more absorbed in the process of elucidating each theme. There is usually an ending to the series I am working on which is somewhat mysterious to me. Being an intuitive, feeling personality type, I eventually find my way towards another focus of my creative energy.
In my most recent work I try to think of each painting as a journey, an adventure into unknown territory. What ends up on the canvas often bears little relationship to what was there at its beginning. It is the process that I am interested in, the moments of temporary satisfaction that lead to what feels like the great risk of change in search of a certain “completeness” that is not really complete but intimates new beginnings.