Artist, Mother, Fighter, Dreamer.
My story
In my painting process as in my life, I close my eyes to see with inner eyes. I stop to sense and acquire the essence of things and fill my soul with these luxuries to build up a repertoire of awareness. I try to stay full of intrinsic information to gain access to image transfer and manifestation. I seek what is just beyond my comprehension and strength.
When I paint the work has a direct link to my being/experiences. My life experiences and dreams directly manifest themselves in my images consciously and unconsciously. Sometimes the image emerges preceding the experience like foreshadowing.
Being a dancer was what made me an intuitive and able to connect very deeply with physical expression and it is with this keen awareness I use the figure to illustrate many ideas.
I respect my work for the entity it is and my role in the ability to create. I am in awe at times at the boundaries I cross mentally, emotionally and spiritually in creating and with the images that come forth. When I paint I work very intuitively and slowly as I start working, I inevitably reach a point of chaos that I have to navigate as the piece takes shape. I work technically at some points when considering the development of the composition and control of color and slowly when nearing completion in order to draw the line between where one piece is ending and another one is about to take shape. Once I thought I ruined a piece because I couldn’t work my way out of the chaos and so I changed the direction I was taking in the middle of the idea and really disliked it. I walked away from it for two years. When I returned to it this year I found it to be very electric. A piece people are drawn to, but don’t know why. I guess it is just the energy of the piece.
