THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF LEAVING /
BEESWAX AND WATERCOLOR ON VEGETABLE-FIBER PAPER MOUNTED ON 6 x 24 x 1.5 INCH CRADLED BIRCH PANEL
new work: urban exile
CONSTRAINTS PROVOKE CREATIVITY. When my studio building was destroyed by 150-foot fir trees during devastating winds in Portland in January 2024, I was displaced into a downtown hotel for a few months until my home was livable. With only limited materials salvaged from my home and studio, I found a way to repurpose damaged paintings, covering them with bits of translucent waxed watercolors I’d been making. What emerged was the beginnings of a series reflecting on the fractured nature of what we call home, and the tension between the urban and natural landscape.
intimate portraits of enormous spaces
I use the metaphor of landscape to explore relationships with time and space outside of everyday experience. Every work of art is a landscape — capturing and recording internal or external experiences. Because our memories of time and place are more than visual pictures, I rarely use photographic references — preferring instead to allow my work to be intuitive and sense-memory based.
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