About the Artist

For most of my adult life, I’ve taught composition, literature, and English as a second language.  When Covid hit, like many others, I spent a lot of time creating-- gardening, drawing, etc.  Having long blocks of time using a less verbal part of my brain brought peace in ways I didn’t know I needed.

I determined to protect these womb-like oases that occurred when making beauty. 

A year and a half into COVID, I shocked myself and quit my job.  Almost on a whim.  At 58, I resolved to give myself a year to learn to paint.  

I’m discovering that painting is less about what I bring to it and more about what it gives me.

The poet and philosopher David Whyte describes a beautiful life as one in which we “come out of abstraction and into an immediate experience.”  When painting, the noise in my head stills, and I’m abducted by the immediate experience of color, texture, and shape.

Interacting with a canvas, I enter some timeless, fearless, peaceful place where “success” and “failure” are words that have no meaning.  There is only grace.