My art reflects my ongoing interest in the illusion of figurative forms in nature and the metamorphosing of forms in space.  As an artist I draw inspiration from a lot of different traditions and cultures, and find myself challenging the limitations and boundaries that have long separated fine art from craft.  Although primarily a sculptor, my concerns for space, color and texture are also apparent in my charcoals and pastels.  I am committed both to collaborative community art, and to pursuing my own art in my studio.  At present I am also personally finding it necessary to reflect in my art the desperation I feel about the violence in the world.

 

While I have predominantly sculpted in clay, over the past year and a half I have been experimenting with other materials which enable me to work directly without casting, and preserve my interest in form and surface.  I have been working on a larger and smaller series of sculptures that allude to forms in nature, organic forms.  The pieces grapple with ways of seeing and experiencing that ultimately challenge the viewer to think about what he/she is observing:  natural formations in the landscape (trees, rocks), or figures; something that is part of a natural process, or the product of violation; something beautiful or quite disturbing, or both.