Curriculum Vitae
Twenty five years ago I was painting and showing around Maine. I painted large iconic images. They came out unbidden, sometimes overwhelming.
My work was described back then by reviewers as having “ confident gestural line”, as “original sophisticated works”, and “with it folk art, disarmingly sure of themselves”. It was nice to be seen and I still think these things are the artistic strengths of my work.
For personal reasons I stopped painting around 2002, mostly having to do with doubt. I had lost my rudder. After that I experimented. I designed some nature based books, web books and installations in the next years while volunteering for the local land trust. I took videography courses and printmaking workshops but I did not bring my projects to conclusion.
About five years ago I started painting again but it was different. Before, I ran to keep up with the images. They exploded out of someplace inside of me I did not recognize or just wrangled their way to the surface. Now they come more slowly but I am more at home with them.
I felt like I lost some of my edge in my years of not painting and showing, but I gained a depth and a relationship to my work that I did not have before.