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art invited me to bring beauty, connection,and meaning to our hearts and communities,
and into a portal to the world and myself.
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i paint with acrylics often, and experiment with watercolors, pastels, ink, charcoal, and frequently work on recycled canvas, cardboard, and other substrates. the layers, textures, lines, colors, and shapes of abstraction evoke feeling and invite deep thinking and simply being without words, which i believe we need
defiantly and defensively and restoratively in the current times. i exhibit regularly locally at our library and community shows.
i am also a photographer and poet. winter sunlight on a bedroom radiator in Pennsylvania taught me about light and i became a headliner of a photography exhibit celebrating that radiator and its sibling in the living room. i have participated in group and community photography shows over the years. my haiku & photography books have gone to 4 continents.
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i have lived in 6 states, 4 time zones, and 5 distinct regions across the U.S., all of which taught me, impacted me greatly, live in my heart, and inform my art. my work history is a rich crazy quilt of colors and textures and shapes, which figures into my art as well. art, creativity, design, and craft have been a constant companion and muse, connecting, intriguing, comforting everything along the way.
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my first memory is of the ocean. i'm eternally grateful to live close to one, on an estuary and river, in view of mountains and forest, near bays and farms on the north coast of oregon.
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i am a child of
snow
ocean
awe
creek
singing
prairie
turquoise
words
lake
thunderstorms
rain
mountains
garnet
forest
stones
wonder
dancing
curiosity
river
silence
imagination
joy
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Thank you for your interest in and support of my art,
best to you always, and please go make some art, love an artist, be art...
me in winter on the beach at sunset. it was cold and beautiful and filled my soul.
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