I began my professional life with two degrees in printmaking: a BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland Oregon and an MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The training gave me a feeling for covering a surface making every square inch equally as important as any other square inch. The ideas about layering color to obtain depth and luminosity sprang from there also.

The work is repetitive and a source of great contemplation. I am drawing from my long background of yoga and its ritual forms of meditation to arrive at images of balance.

The images are chosen for their simplicity and symbolism, this series with broken circles and divided sides. They could be read as pure abstraction, which they are, but the impetus for choosing them was to talk about our divisive conflicted world of extreme sides and our lack of control over such a world.

Many of these pieces were created at the Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest Illinois just as I was beginning to make this new work. These were the first paintings using acrylic mediums and breaking away from the oil painting tradition as I was seeking new ways to make luminous surfaces. I am extrelely grateful for the time that was given to me.