A collection of abstract paintings created in oil and cold wax that reflect an ongoing fascination with layering, texture, and the tension between control and letting go.
View the CollectionOil & Cold Wax on Panel
I am an abstract artist with a multidisciplinary background that includes printmaking, painting, jewelry making, and photography. Originally from Rochester, New York, I am now a nearly forty-year resident of California. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Louisiana State University in 1981, specializing in printmaking. After college, I eventually moved to California, where I raised my three children. Always looking for a creative outlet, I began making one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry, which I sold at in-home trunk shows.
My path led me back to painting, where I find great joy in my studio, with my dog by my side, music filling the space, and a view of California oaks on the adjacent hillside. The paintings I create today are built through many layers of oil and wax that are applied, scraped back, and rebuilt, allowing traces of earlier decisions to remain visible. I'm drawn to surfaces that feel weathered, then layered with fresh shapes, sometimes overlapped with additional texture and mark-making.
My process evolves intuitively — guided less by rules and more by what feels emotionally right in the moment. What I love most about this medium is the way each painting's final story emerges through its visual language — color, form, and texture — revealing itself when the push and pull of these elements comes to rest.
