My work is about the survival, resilience and thriving of the natural world filled with growing roots, sprouting seeds, buds and blooms, veins of water and blood, family branches, rivers of life, heavenly bodies, infinite oceans and a few frolicking nature sprites. They are prayers for nature's regeneration I make visible through painting.
The paintings shine as visual metaphors for my exploration of divine spirit. They record my intuitive connection and exploration of the infinite source, the universe. These germinating seeds of visual art seek the power to clear the mind and soul of clutter, like trees clean the air of pollution. Through painting, I strive to show a transcendent landscape that heals through beauty, strength, courage, and love.
I express through curving, sensuous brushy brushwork, organic form, and the luscious luminosity of transparent layers of oil paint: ultramarine blue, viridian green, alizarin crimson, drying slowly over time. My influences are Matta, Agnes Pelton, Anselm Keifer, Lee Krasner, Mark Rothko, Fra Angelico, Bellini, Paul Gauguin, Kay Sage, Yves Tanguy, Wolfgang Paalen, Frida Kahlo, as well as Tibetan Mandalas, African Sculpture, and Chinese landscape painting.
Over the years, I’ve been hiding these shiny gems under a plain rock. But these paintings are not meant to sit in the dark corner of a 1910 one-car garage/ art studio/ woman cave in Echo Park. I wish them to be shared with others as sources of daily visual beauty, divine inspiration, and spiritual healing.
For questions and further information, please visit the “contact” page. If you would like to adopt a painting, they range from $80 to $1,600, depending on size.