Sky Mind Series
We look to the heavens for inspiration, for release, for expansion, for freedom. The sky is also, in its way, a great mystery because its many majestic, mountainous forms are really only vapors in the process of diffusing and aligning in arbitrary ways. The sky is a great improvisation, and these paintings are small improvisations that honor its nature.
Clouds teach the truth about all form because they are ephemeral. Whatever shape they take lasts only a short time before the wind creates another. Buddhist teachings encourage practitioners to view their thoughts and feelings as clouds in the sky: there is no sense in maintaining attachments to impermanent forms or in telling stories about accidental shapes that are always in the process of changing. Instead, one can “rest in a mind like vast sky.” The title of this series, ‘Sky Mind,’ comes from those teachings.
Ghost Garden Series
I’m very interested in transition, when one thing becomes another thing, when an idea is forming in one’s mind. The feeling one has when something is emerging, of quiet anticipation, or when something is dissolving, gently drifting away…. This is what inspires paintings in the Ghost Garden series.
These paintings represent the experience of one habitat disappearing and another taking its place. The series bears gentle witness to these changes.
60s/70s Series
The inventive, colorful textiles of the 1960s and 1970s inspire these paintings which are playful attempts to complicate the conventions of landscape painting.Those conventions compose space with clear a foreground and background. But imagery in textiles usually exist on one plane. So, figure and ground are deliberately confused in this series.
Landscape painting also reinforces our distance from the material world by making us into observers of nature rather than participants in it. I hope to reverse this distancing by helping viewers be part of the painting in a full-bodied way.
Interior Series
This series explores exchanges between interior design and fine art
