Being an animal activist and feminist, my artwork flows from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern, and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. Through my artwork, I create a world as I would like it to be, where harmony exists between animals and humans, and where nature thrives. Art is where I go for refuge, replenishing, and how I pay homage to what sustains me.
In my cold wax paintings, the properties of this medium fascinate me and keep me curious; how the underlying layers inform and alter the layers applied over them, how incising and scraping and glazing make more changes. I know I am wielding the palette knife and mixing the colors, but what happens on the panel is beyond my control. I’m learning how to be fine with the state of ‘not knowing’.
