A mark of paint, a decision, a choice; all are effected by their surrounds. They also affect their surrounds. A horizontal stroke of blue paint bisecting a vertical ochre stroke modifies both in their interaction, just as a particular experience can transform a person. Paint applied to a canvas, like experience, seeks and alters awareness, discovery, or questions. Continually successive combinations of moments, decisions, and marks gather to build a parinting or enrich an individual.

A blank canvas becomes active with repeated applications of paint much like a calm sea begins to ripple as it is caressed by a gust of wind. The wind affects the surface of water causing waves to follow the breeze, meeting and interacting with other waves and ripples shaped by yet another gust, possibly stronger. This interaction is et altered again from other waves formed by the force of wather perhaps hitting a shore and being driven back out to sea. In the edges of these immeasurable ripples, buoyant light reflects the surrounding color and relentlessly affects its own hue. A body of water is persistent in its movement, constantly changing like the repeated application of color as a painting develops.

Perchance, in the course of this movvement, this sustained action and these continual marks, there comes a reealing of what lies beneath the surface: a center or core steadily accumulating an infinite variety of experience. Perception is illuminated, if only for a moment, yet altered ever after. -Artist Statement, 2004

Education
1971       Associate of Arts Degree – Fine Art, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA
1973       Bachelor of Fine Arts – Drawing/Printmaking, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles CA
1974-76  Graduate work toward MFA – Printmaking, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles CA

Selected Exhibitions
2006  Summer Moon, Solo Show, SCAPE, Corona Del Mar CA
2005  Moment of Inertia, Solo Show, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM        
          Winter Group Exhibition, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe NM
2004  Sustained Resonance, Two-Person Exhibition, SCAPE, Corona Del Mar CA
          Beneath the Surface, Solo Show, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley ID
          Beneath the Surface, Two Person Exhibition, Friesen Gallery, Seattle WA
          Greek Contributions to Mankind – An Exhibition of Contemporary   American Art, Group                 Exhibition, United States Embassy, Athens Greece
2003   A Given Moment – Part 2, two Person Exhibition, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
           Group Exhibition, Jeannie Denholm –T he Shed, Newport Beach CA
           Outside Within, Group Exhibition, Friesen Gallery, Seattle WA
2002   The Art Collection, Embassy of the United States of America Dar Es Salaam,Tanzania