My work has always been strongly influenced by the idea of “shards” as a metaphor for human communication across time. A shard can be a found fragment of clay, a rusty nail, a scrap of handwriting – any little clue that becomes a “secret handshake” between the maker and the discoverer.

Human faces, ancient or contemporary, fascinate me as summaries of life stories in the moment. Clay, paper, beeswax, and fiber are my instinctive, beloved media but mark-making through abstract painting challenges me to develop my own language of expression and translation.

The more aware I am of the little day-to-day incomplete clues that capture my attention by calling to me in a mysterious way, and the more I take note of them, the more understanding I gain about the purpose of my art as the re-assembling of human narratives across time.


Through years of self-reflection, I’ve come to understand that synchronicity, intuition, and the collective unconscious are major influences in my work.

• Synchronicity - that uncanny coincidence, unlikely conjunction of events, or startling serendipity - happens "out there," against the odds. Something in the Universe seems to swing into place to answer an inner need we have.
• Intuition happens "in here." it's an inner knowing, an ability to tune into knowledge in a non-rational, nonlinear way.
• Collective unconscious, a term coined by Carl Jung, refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among beings of the same species.