Most folks know me as a photographer; I only started
painting 7 years ago, when I realized what fun it could be to paint abstracts.
Being relatively new to painting
and working primarily in abstracts gives me a wonderful excuse to be constantly
exploring new possibilities. Whether the result is visually satisfying or not,
I have the fun of testing new colors, tools, techniques, and compositions; I’m
not yet locked into a particular style. And, because acrylic paint dries
quickly, if I don’t like the results I can just keep painting over what I’ve
done until it evolves into something that pleases me.
Like most of the work I show in
galleries, the paintings in last month’s exhibit in this room were fairly
serene, but not all my work takes that shape. Sometimes, in addition to just
experimenting, I use painting to express my frustrations or to respond to
events in the world around me. I am grateful to the library for allowing me to
display some of my more dynamic and emotional pieces, as well as some of the experiments
I chose not to pursue. As my family is fond of saying, "you can’t put Walkers
in a box,” and that seems to be true of my art as well as my life, so here’s
some of my more out-of-the-box work...
