"Dance Hall Days"

Acrylic on canvas board

14"x11" framed

2023

ARTIST BIO

Primarily a self-taught painter, I've been working in oil and acrylic on canvas for 30 years. My work has been shown and collected throughout the U.S. and Europe. I've worked in set painting for theater and opera, as a pastry chef, and graduated with an AA in Psychology along with music studies in voice and piano.

Evaluating and experimenting are the ways I continue to push my creative expression to new levels; I work to develop a painting style that is uniquely my own. Currently I'm exploring abstract painting that originates from allowing the image to emerge with as little conscious thought as possible, known as the flow state. These paintings are a story being told with the interaction between the movement of shapes and colors. Originality and self-expression are vital to my artwork in both abstract and figurative compositions. My figurative work is based on emotion, personal experience, friends, family, animals, and nature.

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time" [Fr. Louie Merton]. Using color and movement I immerse myself in the moment allowing my subconscious to create a figurative and expressionistic visual representation of my emotions. Joy, despair, conflict, anger, and bliss all find a place in my artwork.

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