Artist Statement

What is worth painting? What needs to be said that hasn’t yet been done?

Sometimes difficult experiences of my own well up in a visual language in order to understand what I have been through; sometimes a statement needs to be made about what I see in the world … or hear again and again from my patients.

As a psychotherapist, I’ve listened for years to the joy, grief, creativity, confusion, and absurdities we face in our lives each in a unique way. That privilege taught me that to be of real use I needed to attend to tiny changes in gesture, facial expression, voice – nuances in the eyes- to understand what was really conveyed.

Passion, objectivity, and the wish to speak out drive my art. The images strive to touch the inner life of the spectator. Titles often occur to me as a way to help bring people into the life of the painting: “I Have Nothing to Remember; Have I Been A Friend to Myself, or to Another?” Adam and Eve who take their freedom in, “Against Nonsense.”

I’m grateful you’ve come to see my work. I hope you feel touched – even a little – by what you see.