The Heart of the Matter Painting

Explaining feelings is hard. Painting feelings on the other hand, now that's a horse of a different color (get it?). My work, consisting of acrylic and mixed media abstract paintings on canvas and paper, starts and ends with feelings. My process is organic, intuitive, and deeply authentic. It is also very much informed by my work as a therapist and social worker in the way I value self-exploration, the validity of human experience, and a good sense of humor about it because life is short and I find it helps to not take one's self too seriously. Sometimes my process begins with feelings inspired by an experience or place, and other times by processing feelings I can’t put into words until the painting is done. The titles of my paintings along with the work itself help to tell the viewer an entire story in a single word or a phrase. The story begins as my own, but as a non-representational story open to broad interpretation, it ultimately becomes the viewer's story as well. We're in it together, folks. My hope for viewers is that my art will invite them to be a curious observer of their own inner worlds, as it does for me.