Summersville Painting

As a visual journalist, time, place, and relationships are documented as evidence of experience. Within my practice I explore self-perception through additive and subtractive painting processes. Working from an intuitive female perspective, attempt is made to translate underlying thoughts of artist as witness. With an emphasis on materials and diverse methods, traceable evidence of surface becomes recognizable. Tactile surfaces suggest similarities and comparisons to flesh where paint can be thin skinned, heavy handed, bruised, like human emotions, giving meaning to hardship and trauma. Once resolved, paintings have a life pulse distinctly their own.