As an abstract artist, I am always on the lookout for inspiration and new experiences to fuel my creativity. That searching has largely included travel which is something I have made a priority and that I value to feed and nourish my creative well as I push ever forth with my work. My art has changed and evolved alongside each new place and experience. Surprisingly, Houston, Texas has been my secret muse for over three decades. Since the 1980s, Houston has been my second home town, thanks to my sister and parents who relocated there. But it wasn't until my first visit to Houston from Oregon that I realized how much the city had to offer in terms of culture, art, food, and parks.

“The unifying theme in this body of work quite literally is transitions. I am excited to see how being in a new place that offers a constant view of the horizon combined with significant movement of constellations will inform the work. This series of 20 pieces, each 14” x 11”, represents both past and present, and in hindsight, they represent the 20 years of creating in my previous studio.”

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Last month, thanks to grants from the Oregon Arts Commission and Ford Family Foundation, I stepped outside my home studio and partnered up once again with a old friend, Jane Pagliarulo at Atelier Meridian. I had always wanted to do large prints of a specific image from particle physics…

James Webb Space Telescope and its first alignment images sparked a reflection on Star Cluster, one of the large paintings available in my studio collection. In the creative swirl of the time, I was thinking of particle science and Paul Klee’s Twittering Machine.