Artist's Statement
One way or another, we all reach out for something beyond: I see this when I'm painting or drawing, connecting with a subject that has caught my eye with lines and colours that demand to be acknowledged. Trees become clouds, become waves, become the swooping shoreline, the line of an arm, a neck, a slant of sunlight across a table, the raven passing overhead... It is the beauty of connection that draws me, and I try to draw it.
As an artist, I have learned to listen to that inner voice—and to rely on the artist's eye--that will declare when an image is "done", complete, finished. The experience—the doing of it—is all I ask for, all I can imagine, and if what I produce gives someone else years of pleasure, I am gratified to send it out into the world on its own. There, out there somewhere, I hope it moves others to connect to the beauty that moved me, and to see something new in the image every time they look at it.
