I paint the light and shadows that I see around me – usually on individual figures waiting in suburban or urban landscapes, often at train stations. I explore the contrast between the human form and the architecture of the stations: patient people waiting with the strong light on the hard angles and the precise perspectives of the rails. I explore how figures fit into their environments, and how the lights and darks unite them with their surroundings.
I love the feel of manipulating oil paints and how these viscous liquids, saturated with pigments, solidify and preserve that movement forever. I create large oil paintings on canvases that are often five or six feet tall, and I also make small, detailed works using oil paints on prepared pieces of watercolor paper. My themes and subjects remain consistent despite this drastic change of scale.
My husband is a woodworker and a gilder. He frames my large canvases with stripping, or he will create handmade wooden frames for them. The small paintings are floated in sink mats wrapped in linen. He designs and hand-carves frames, often water-gilded, for each one.