My work has always encompassed both representational and abstract approaches, drawing from landscape, interiors, gardens, psychology, archeology, and technology. All my work conveys an emotional charge by the use of color, pattern, repetition, and movement. I am interested in how spaces hold mood – how a room, garden, or even an abstract shape carries memory, unease, pleasure, or peace.

My Garden series considers the garden as a place where cultivation and wildness meet. Dense visual fields of color, line, shape, and movement encourage slow looking to notice the beauty of the natural world. Working on these paintings gives me a deep appreciation of the beauty that can result when we collaborate with nature to cultivate life and harmony.

Paintings in the Domicile series are visual psychodramas – studies in the emotive effects of color and ambiguous spaces.

The geometric abstractions of my Color series are pure expressions of my love of color. In some of these paintings, each large, dynamic shape is composed of thousands of obsessively applied small brushstrokes that convey attention and patience. In others, flat surfaces call attention to the relations of color and shapes to one another.

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I spent much of my early life in the Texas Panhandle, where I traveled throughout the Southwest with my archeologist father and journalist mother. These childhood experiences of landscape and observation have served as the basis for my artwork ever since.

I attended Arizona State University on an art scholarship and ultimately earned a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin.

In 2004 I moved from Austin to Marfa, Texas, where I lived for 20 years before relocating to Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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