STATEMENT

These paintings have close kinship with the atmosphere, color and space of my earlier seemingly different landscape based work.

This has been a period of my life where I am enjoying the impulse to do some experimenting in the studio. My last show at Linda Hodges involved both small encaustic panels, concerned with drapery on early renaissance paintings, and large charcoal drawings of the roots of trees. The principal vectors of change since that show have been moving my studio after 10 years and then walking through the treatment for breast cancer.  There has been some occasional discomfort, but I am fortunate to have it caught early and to have much support and the sanctuary of my studio in which to be happy.  What I have been exploring there are interior worlds, reflected in sources as diverse as the movement in fabric, the cellular worlds of anatomy and chemistry, and being drawn to arcing and circular imagery rife in the radiation therapy room.

I am continuing to be interested in the play of color as a means of dialog between the forms in a diptych.