Artist Statement
Since I was a child I've been interested in portraits. A likeness seems to
reside in what is particular to the subject, what contradicts my
expectations of normal structure. I've always made portraits except when I
made a long detour into art about movement.
I've always been interested in bodies that speak. In college I had the luck
to study figure drawing and ballet all at the same time, and to dance in
operas and musicals. Later in New York I continued to study dance, and
to watch and learn through my daughter's professional dance training and
career. I've made drawings and paintings with some of New York's finest
dancers. My Still Point drawings focus on the body's center of gravity
and study the dancer's instrument. My Signature drawings, an ongoing
series of movement portraits, study the dancer's inner line.
In landscape painting I've followed a sense of metaphysical presence. My
new drawings and rather large paintings of reclining nudes are a
meditation on movement before movement, evoking the imminence of
landforms and the metaphysics of light.
