Curriculum Vitae
“ When a woman senses there is a mythical dimension to something she is undertaking, that knowledge touches and inspires deep creative centers in her”. Jean Shinoda Bolen
Images activate the deepest part of our brain which indicates to me that what we are seeing, either asleep or awake, what we most primitively chose to engaged with. In this way I tell myself stories, stories in paint. I play with what reveals itself to me, and in so doing have the opportunity to reconnect the many pieces of myself.
From the beginning my paintings and, even more directly my drawings, have sprung from my unconscious. I suspect my unconscious was trying to wake me up. In a search of sanity, a conscious sense of myself, I continued to explore, in an attempt to make connections.
Early on I had to get out of the way, show up with tools and let my hand do the reveal. Since I never had extensive art training I had to believe. Consciously I didn't. I had to let my unconscious have the reins. This caused and still can cause, some disruption, some strange choices in my work, some awkwardness.
That said forty plus years on, my goal remains to bring those archetypal image stories out of the shadows and into the world the best I know how. Hopefully some folks will recognize something that stirs them. Are they still simple? Yes. Are they still awkward? Yes. But, if you stop and listen they might tell you a story.