ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My work from the beginning, in 1970, was still life painted with
obsessive detail, often recording all the changes of light on a set of
studio objects, usually autobiographical objects in the sense that I loved
art books and catalogues and would add them to paintings along with plants,
a blue and white batik cloth, an Emma Bovary hat, fruit, studio tools,
photographs, diaries,remembered childhood paintings, and so forth. I still
paint still lives, now using a grid for most of them, though not all. If
the subject is already full of squares and rectangles, I will forgo the
grid. The point of the grid is modern--pushing toward abstraction a bit
and also making colors central. The color changes slightly as the objects
or landscapes pass through the grid.
Now that I am able to travel more, I use my travel watercolors and
photographs to reconstruct the places I have visited. Venice is a main
subject, because of the incessant mirroring of colors possible there.
Holland also, and now Greece have provided subjects for oils and
watercolors. My artist's residency last fall(2002) at Brisons Veor in
Cape Cornwall, England, has inspired a series of small and large
watercolors, as well as the opportunity to curate a show of works by the
other women artists who have recently held this unusual residency.