As a native of Rhode Island (known as the “Ocean State”) the vastness of the sea has always been a prominent source of inspiration. Other influences include Euclidian geometry, architectural drawings, and traditional quilting. I am interested in the contrast of illusionistic space simultaneously existing with flatness. The imagery is open to multiple interpretations; forms can describe a sky, a diagram, a syncopated beat, a pathway, or a horizon. 

My paintings harness the ever-present current of flux and transience, which for me is at the core of the human experience. I use tone and line to explore oppositional forces: two-dimensional pattern with spatial depth, fast and slow, density with transparency, rooted with reaching, and structure with gesture. The tension created by these varying elements existing together on the picture plane gives my paintings a magnetic strength.