My Journey as an Artist

When I started my art journey, I had no idea where it would take me. It all started because a therapist "made" me process all of my lifelong traumas through art. At the time, I had lots of expletives about it. Now, I am forever grateful for her insight in understanding what I needed to discover myself.

I look back at my first pieces and see their flaws. At the time, of course, I loved each and every painting. Now ... many of them are scrap pieces that I can smile at. Some, though. Some were miracles of beauty. Let's take the Dutch pour. Thank you Rinske Doune for bringing that technique to us. I LOVED my Dutch pour phase and will still go back to the technique occasionally. There's one particular pour that had been hanging in my living room since I made it. It evokes a spewing volcano.

Now that we are moving, I put out a call to folks to buy my existing art at reasonable prices so I don't have to move it to my new location. A friend from long ago (40 years!) and his wife stopped by. And that painting, with its triple base, is what really struck her.

You can see some of the progression of my art looking at the Volcano and then moving to the piece that landed my old friend. Refraction is much closer to my pre-mixed media style and one I definitely go back to often. The colors are ones that I use regularly - evoking ocean and sunset colors. I love its distinct lines and the paint transparency. And do you see the sea creature blowing into the water? My eye goes right there every time I look at it.

Each one has so much movement. And each are pieces of my heart and my journey. I'm so glad they have a good home with people who trusted their guts and picked the art that felt right to them.