Art making is my life's practice

As a sculptor I explore visual ways to build bridges between time, land, sea, heavenly bodies, and the people who experience them.

Luna Girls on Alki, a 9 ft x 14 ft public sculpture, connects the West Seattle waterfront of one hundred years ago to visitors today. The sculpture is designed to last one hundred years into the future. The image of Girls playing at the beach brings our awareness to the water's edge. Maquettes of the sculpture allow us to bring Luna Girls into our home, recreating personal connections to the waterfront.

My years as a sculptor, site designer, and goldsmith bring an unusual influence to my current work as a painter. Those 3-dimensional and public artworks brought joy and recognition through interviews, articles, and publication in eleven books.   As I transitioned to painting, it was exciting to switch from heavy equipment to the ancient tools of brushes and mark makers.

I am driven by the freedom of the evolving process that abstract painting allows. I can boldly follow my curiosity without hesitation.  I work with a painting until it is visually resolved, and I have learned something new about myself or the world. I find that painting in abstract creates psychic distance and makes room for veiled impressions to surface.

I invite the viewer to share this feeling of discovery and conjure their own personal associations with the art.