As a contemporary abstract „Flow” painter I am influenced by the abstract expressionists such as Rothko, Pollock and Frankenthaler for the emotion and gesture of modern painters. O’Keeffe has inspired me as a trailblazing woman using the awe of the natural western environment, and feminist symbolist language in her painting.
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I create my works using liquid, physics and mindful meditation. I created this method with a series I titled “Mandala” which was painted in on residency in India .In Buddhists and American Indian tradition the a Mandala can be created of sand and pigment in a ritual of meditation and is wiped clean after completion .I painted a “Mandala “ series with pigment gravity, and water floated on canvas and wood panels .Next I swept the Mandala across the panel which lead to the” Monsoon” paintings with impermanence and transition in mind, the work has a reference to storms and personal emotional landscapes. This continued in my series “Buddha’s Dust” where I meditated on the ages-old saying ”There are no mistakes only Buddha’s dust.” I set my psyche up to accept the idea that to create within nature or ”physics” one needs to surrender to the nature of the medium, to ride the wave as would a surfer. That to let nature happen with mindful control can in itself be a process of art. This does not mean that the results of my work is random- there is a fine conjunction between nature and flow and the work to gain the precise movement and sense of purity and naturalness in the final painting. When asked how long a particular painting takes I would say it takes all my life. This process has been many years in making.
The harmony of nature in meditation is a tradition of Eastern philosophy I am familiar with. I was born in the Arizona desert and was raised by my grandmother who was a practicing yogi and self-proclaimed shaman. I live and work in awe of the beauty and power of nature and science. Many viewers recall emotional memories and references or reminisces of nature as different from each other as Alaska and India, water to fire, and emotions that range from chaos to calm This echoes the idea of quantum physics, that once the art is viewed it is forever changed.
In my new series of paintings I am continuing the method of physics and psyche I created, tracing pigment with liquid, evaporation, and gravity on wood panels using nature as a medium in mindful meditation. I am also working on larger panels and while this is physically more challenging, it creates an epic environmental work which is very enveloping in an installation as it can surround the viewer to invite a more interactive dialogue with the paintings. I am continuing in a media that I conceder natural painting with emotional memory.
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