Artist Statement

My art bears witness to two joys:  intently observing the complexities of nature’s rhythms and variations, and celebrating the alchemies and accidents of water and pigment on paper.  Through nature and paint, I am interested in capturing organic transformations that embody the concurrent polarities of living:  control with freedom, decay with beauty, frailty with resilience. 

I vary close observation with painterly dissolutions of form that call attention to the materiality of watercolor.  Whether painting River Farm botanicals or the Maine coastline, I am exploring the impact of time and change in our environment.