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I paint with acrylics and plastic or acrylic-based mediums as well as added elements of either nylon netting, paper, wood, glass beads, and more recently, dryer sheets. I like to mix glues, pastels and pencils for experimentation. The dryer sheets and floor wax represent a domesticity I am faced with simply because I am woman, a mom, and then an artist. But when I do art, I AM AN ARTIST, and an artist that knows no gender. They also happen to be affordable materials easily on hand. I feel the color and form I use come from within. I have always been attracted to straight lines and architectural shapes; however, my paintings have been considered gesture paintings because I add layer upon layer and apply introduced materials out of the ordinary. |
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My inspiration are the many women artists before me, as well as the abstract expressionists of New York, and moreover, painters who do printmaking, too. Some of my favorite painters include Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhart, Mark Rothko, and Jasper Johns. I don't believe painting ever died, and I don't intend to kill it either. When people ask me how long I've been an artist, I have to say, "I've always been an artist." |
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I know this is true and have felt and practiced that with my own art since showing it. So true .... I am a channel. And others see in my art what I see. It is not of me or from me but through me. Some are moved and touched by it, and others are not ... and that is okay and always has been. Yes, I have doubts as any human being does. Yet I know this art is worthy. Valid. I studied and went to school, I learned what I could outside of school as well. I saw, I experienced, and I expressed. I just am. I just paint. For now. |
