Statement
I moved to San Francisco in 1996 with my husband
and my son. Born in New York City and living
in suburban Connecticut, I had a 20-year New
York-based career in public relations and corporate
communications after I graduated from Connecticut
College in New London with a BA in Literature.
After having made my living for so long using words, I found that California's
light, scenery, attitude and whole way of life
awakened in me a desire to communicate in visual
terms. Some classes at the Sharon Art Studio
in Golden Gate Park, plus my attempts to teach
myself, confirmed my resolve. I enrolled as an
art student at City College of San Francisco
in early 2003, and have been drawing and painting
continually since then. I remain a City College
student, and also take private instruction.
My focus is watercolor, both alone or in combination
with dry media. I describe my style as "recognizable abstraction." I
seek simplification -- distilling my chosen subject,
emotion or thought to what I feel is its basic
sense -- preferably in a way that would not occur
to anyone else. For that reason, I most admire
artists and poets whose work expresses their
independence, especially Winslow Homer and Emily
Dickinson.
I belong to several Bay Area art groups, and my work has appeared in local, regional
and national juried shows since 2005; I also
exhibit through City College.