I have long felt a kinship with fabric, textiles, clothes, color and design. Perhaps it’s why I resonate so strongly with silk as a medium for painting.

There is an organic quality to the process since silk is so absorbent and the dye moves rapidly.  As a result, I work quickly, spontaneously and intuitively. I often forego the conventional way of delineating shapes, aiming more for beautiful and capricious effects than holding tightly to form. This gives my work more fluidity than traditional paintings on silk.

My hope is to unleash an organic form of beauty --- the imperfectly perfect beauty of the wabi-sabi sort. I feel most satisfied when my paintings evoke a sense of peace and warmth.  I also aim to express the whimsical or magical side of life –- a moment apart from our ordinary lives.  The way silk conveys color, luminosity and movement only adds to the communication.

I can’t ignore the other thing that I love about silk: it doesn’t have to be left to the walls. Silk ‘floaters’ can brighten up a corner, loosely separate two rooms or billow across a ceiling to soften and anchor the entire space. The change to the emotional and design-scape can be dramatic. 

I arrived at the doorstep of this art form via the life path of personal inner exploration. The ideas explored in my work flow from this dance with the inner self and its creative possibilities. The interior world is mimicked in the medium itself: the ongoing tension between freedom and control; fluidity and boundaries, playfulness and intent. The stuff of life is all there.