FOLDED, January 27th, 2015
pimented wax and silk thread on Kitakata, 39x61
FOLDED, January 19th, 2015
pigmented wax and silk thread on Kitakata, 39x52
FOLDED, July 29, 2014
pigmented beeswax, silk thread on kitakata, 39x27
FOLDED, August 24, 2014
pigmented beeswax, silk thread on kitakata, 33x35
FOLDED, August 17, 2014
pigmented beeswax, silk thread on kitakata, 38x32
Guna O
pigmented wax and ink on Okawara paper, 38" x 26", 2016
Guna P
pigmented wax and ink on Okawara paper, 38" x 26", 2016
Guna Q
pigmented wax and ink on Okawara paper, 38" x 26", 2016
Guna E
pigmented wax and ink on Okawara paper, 38" x 26", 2016
Benthic Mapping 6, 7, 8
Encaustic on mesa paper, group of three individual scrolls 120" x 22 "
Artist Statement
I love process, especially when it comes to working on collages, monotypes or paintings. I’ve been drawing, painting and printmaking for over 30 years, working in different media, yet a common thread flows between the marks and gestures of all my finished pieces. My influences are geometry with respect to structures like music and science (nature). I find fascinating how seamless this visual history consistently appears despite how many years pass.
Things that inspire me are the central coast of California where I live with its tangles of kelp and distressed tree limbs plus a lifelong interest and study of music. My current focus and body of work is collage using fragments of discarded etchings, encaustic monotypes, drawings. Sometimes the collages are mounted on panel with additional painted imagery, sometimes they are mounted on paper. The result is never ending hours of challenge, problem solving and fun as I attempt to make visual sense of puzzle-like fragments, each with a different configuration yet sharing many elements with pieces that have gone before them.
Currently, I’m working on 2 series of paintings: multi-fragmented collages and single-fragment collage paintings, both incorporating encaustic monotypes mounted on panels. Working back and forth between the 2 series, I explore the elements where art, music and nature intersect with respect to pattern, gesture, color, space, etc.
Inspiration for my work, whether a drawing, etching, painting or collage comes from where I live on the central coast of California. Organic shapes and linear elements abound in the form of plant and sea life. Many years ago, I studied music and earned a Master’s degree from New England Conservatory of Music. As a student I was strongly influenced by the compositional principles of John Cage. Often, my work incorporates the process of indeterminancy: decisions about mark-making involve parameters that are fixed or limited such as color, line and shape. While I no longer perform music actively, the elements of music are deeply embedded in me, appearing in composition, line, spatial relationships, and color.
