About Me
I’m told I was a creative kid….always drawing, designing, painting junky furniture weird colors, making floor plans out of leaves in the backyard, throwing pots, sewing huge triangles into old pants to make the biggest bellbottoms in seventh grade…when I wasn’t climbing trees or being a silly smart-ass. Growing older, I became distanced from those idyllic days and, like so many, had jobs, married, started a family, got involved with the community, took care of those I loved. For the last 10-15 years, I redirected myself to my visual passions of painting, multi-media work, and photography. Mostly photography! I traveled extensively, solo or with family or friends, and I always had several cameras with me. Photography encouraged me to seek a deeper understanding of cultures very different than my own, to make images that could convey stories, to share the boundless beauty of our world and the resilience of its people.
And then COVID-19 came along. The pandemic encouraged so many artists to look inward and closer to home for inspiration. I turned to learning new photographic skills in online classes, researching and collecting images of artists I admired, reading publications about the visual arts.
Most rewarding to me was spending countless hours in my sister’s pool. The water was my additional shelter-at-home locale during warm months. I focused on a project I’d begun in 2018 of making still-life images of flowers that are not quite still at all because they are moving in water. I loved the distortion, the blur, the abstraction, the fracturing, the reflections both of the sky and of the underside of the surface of the water. I was constantly surprised. I had a failure:success rate of 500:1 and I’m being generous.
This new work, “Flower Disarrangement” was first presented in COLORS: Hornsby Photography/Desaulniers Painting, an exhibit with longtime friend and fellow artist Connie Desaulniers. Connie’s eclectic and fanciful paintings juxtaposed with my watery/abstract floral photographs combined for a dynamic exhibit in the Spring of 2022 in Williamsburg, VA.