Boy in the Woods
34" x 42"
Oil on Canvas
2002
“...the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence—the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”
From Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
We all experience moments of clarity when people, environments, and familiar forms resonate with a heightened sense of presence. I paint to capture those moments. In my narrative paintings I explore human curiosity by observing children in tireless experimentation with the elements and forces of nature- gravity, solidity, fluidity, viscosity, motion all through an artful engagement with rocks, water, mud, sticks-probing earth's mysteries. I have studied anatomy with a passion. I am particularly enchanted by the transformative power of light.