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STATEMENT: 2010
In my youth I had to choose between art and science. In 1990, after a career in science and academics, I moved toward art. In 1997 I took a course in oil painting and was immediately taken by the medium. I loved the way the paint made my drawings come to life. I found that my work has an emotional impact and presents a sensuous awareness of form and the way that light lies on surfaces. In 2006 I became extremely sensitive to all forms of solvents used in oil painting and needed to change my technique. After some experimentation, I found my way back to oil painting using a palette knife rather than brushes in order to avoid solvents. In the process, I also began to paint outdoors. My work became more sculptural with the use of the palette knife, and my color ideas developed more strongly with the plein air experience.
In 2008, my husband and I moved from upstate New York to Cape Cod. Once here, I became enchanted with the stark landscape of the dunes in Truro and Provincetown. I was fascinated by the way the wind shapes the sand and I created a series of paintings of that subject attempting to express the forms as well as the sense of serene solitude one gets when walking in the dunes. I have since begun a series called “Beach Dogs”. Early in the morning, people bring their dogs to the beach to let them run. I find the combination of dogs, water and sand very painterly and expressive. This also lets me return in a way to ‘the figure’. Though not human, dogs are very gestural and emotional. Combined with my Cape Cod palette for sand and water, I find it is a very satisfying and enjoyable enterprise. Perhaps I will return to the human figure some time soon.
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