Portfolio

Trying to organize my art is an art in itself.  Experimenting in many directions over the years made me decide to create a portfolio page that represents the “many different mediums” of my artists’ journey.

But here is the long and the short of it, I love it all: sewing on fabric, or painting a truck with the neighborhood kids, drawing with my left hand, or designing cards to sell at health food stores, I love working on surfaces.

Inspiration

Inspired in my 20’s some of my artist heroes Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Matisse to go out of bounds, be bold with color, and repeat patterns. I never got on roller skates like Rauschenberg did, with wings, but I’ve painted on overalls and brought 40 foot paper for tap dancers to cover with pencil and cray pas, using their feet and bodies. The color and usability of Marimekko fabric has always rocked my soul with it’s stark, casual hominess. In another entire vein the humor of Molly Brett, with all her rabbits driving cars and serving tea at mushroom tables. In college taking a workshop with Peter Schumann from Bread and Puppet Theater being inspired by his relationship with words, I felt a kinship to all of it, I couldn’t do just one thing. I am widely known for what I call my “Contemporary Folk Art”, unframed canvas banners and cards(see them in the store). But you can catch more of a glimpse into the bigger picture of my “artist self” on the pages of my website.