Sand Ritual Print

From a very young age I was always proficient at drawing, depicting the human form and objects in perspective with ease and facility. As I matured and experimented I found my life gravitating toward dance and music as well as visual arts. I believe that these three disciplines arise from the same deep-seated human impulses. I am also convinced that the influence of all three has become inseparable in my work as a plastic artist. Though many artist's careers have a progression of a few starkly defined "stages", I personally have never striven to define my work in epochs or periods, moving on to the new and abandoning the old with some kind of a discernible trajectory. Maybe that is because I also continually refresh my creativity by moving from medium to medium - oil on canvas to watercolor, acrylics to original prints and collage. What can a serious artist do, when feeling the call equally to embrace the abstract as well as the figurative? What I find for me is a natural compromise, by making my figurative art looser and my abstractions more palpable. Here I also involve my strong feelings for dance and music because I depend on the almost musical moodiness of color and the textural "rhythms" in nature, often just at the edge of chaos, to make my work accessible. To transport the viewer and stir feelings, emotions and long forgotten memories... to attempt to communicate something more and more intangible while at the same time, more and more personal.