Artist Statement

My work responds to the insecurity and crisis now consuming us worldwide. I see this crisis centering on conflicts between powers over land and resources, as pitting one culture against another. While we all strive for the same qualities in our lives (wherever we live, our religion or cultural beliefs) powerful interests work against our desires for a safe environment, clean air and water, an embracing landscape to call home.

These mixed media pieces combine elements of people and places from different times and cultures. They have the detritus of every day life embedded in them, remnants we generate as we travel through time. I collect and incorporate materials building them in a process that involves securing collage elements with acrylic and wax to build the armature of the work and then progressing to oil and wax for successive layers. In the complex construction of these images, I look at the range of human experience and how we are remarkably similar regardless of separations across years or political boundaries.