Paintings

Wildflowers 2005

Oil Painting Series
12 Paintings 20" x 20"

Wildflowers 2005

Oil Painting Series

12 Paintings 20” x 20”

I make oil paintings and mixed medium drawings. I work with images of plants and animals. I use very bright colors that evoke emotion. I also incorporate text in to several pieces. The text represents my personal commentary. The plants and animals represent people and our environment. They are visual metaphors. All of the layers connect to each other symbolically, they are separate but together. 

I collage images together symbolically considering their iconography. When I work with images of plants and animals I create a narrative. The story is sometimes a bit abstract, other times direct. My ultimate goal is to bring about positive change by making imagery that talks about multicultural, environmental, and spiritual awareness. I would like the viewer to be able to participate in the abstract discussion happening in each piece, and think about the messages I am sending. I would like my art work to tell interesting, provocative, memorable stories. My work starts the beginning of the sentence and the viewer finishes it. My work is talking to the viewer open, honest, and exposed.

Colors, patterns, and layers play very important roles in my paintings. Each layer says something unique. I prefer super bright colors like the kinds of colors that are found in nature. I work with color theory to 

provoke an emotional interaction with the work. The color is its own layer and it becomes a part of the 

narrative in each piece. I love 1960’s and 70’s floral textiles. I am influenced by all of the flashy, 

psychedelic patterns. The bright colors and wild shapes intrigue me. They seem so organic and surreal, like another dimension. 

Like a quilt I weave together fragments; stitches of my life, my opinions, inspirations and revelations. I hope each viewer can get something from looking at my work, even if its just a tiny bit of interest sparked. Maybe it will be given a second thought, hopefully a third.