I Make Art to Connect, Celebrate and Play

Nature enthralls and inspires me. I am fascinated by the changing colors, complex details, infinite variety and sheer wonder of the natural world. I never tire of observing and interpreting the dazzling beauty around me.

Playing with color, shapes, angles and patterns in these interpretations, I hope to find a balance between the purest truths in nature and the particular, unique voice in which nature speaks to me. Birds, from songbirds to raptors, are the primary focus in much of my work.

My greatest influences have come from the work of Navajo and Apache artists with whom I spent the summer of 1996. I learned to understand the ways in which their art is informed by specific beliefs, culture and environment. These deep connections are so interwoven that one cannot be separated from the others. As a result, the work has integrity, purpose and deep personal meaning.

I hope that my work reflects that which is most important to me, the keen awareness and appreciation for the grace, spectacular beauty and and profound mystery of other living creatures sharing this earth.

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