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I love painting and colour, and most often create imagery in a new direction with my painting. With acrylic inks I stopped
inspired by nature, but I rarely paint realistically. I prefer pre-planning the design of my work, instead, I let the imagery
to paint stylized imagery, which is most likely influenced by grow organically while working through my pain and fears.
my background in graphic design. I became intrigued with the idea of creating visual depth by
My earlier textile work, is more subject driven, with imbedding words and images (like talismans for healing) in
planned-out images transferred by pencil to whole-cloth the layers of the paint. I also used paint markers, hand-carved
cotton fabric and painted with textile paints. stamps, and collaged sheer-printed papers onto the fabric, as
in “Black and Bloom All Over”, “8 of Cups” and “Hidden Perks

In 2010, my work became more emotionally driven, as I of a Truckload of Dung”.
dealt with financial losses due to the great recession, I believe art has the potential to have a bigger impact on
coinciding with the end of my 20-year marriage. At this culture and society than words. We live in a visual society,
time, I also began painting with acrylic inks, which are grabbing images and sound bites of information off screens,
more translucent in nature than textile paint, and I moved and while I have felt powerless to make change in our political