about the artist
As a child, I had a book of Aesop’s fables. I would spend hours lying on the floor reading and rereading these stories of animals and humans that bluntly told of the trials and tribulations of life and the matter-of-fact morals that can be drawn from these experiences. I have always been a reader who sees the words as both a written and visual language. As I would read about a fox outsmarting a crow, I would have a vivid picture in my mind of the story unfolding.
This ability to see the words as images is translated to the marks I make in my drawings. They are full of memory as well as the immediacy of the now. Using charcoal, graphite, ink, gouache, and gesso, the drawings express the complicated emotions that come from a nostalgic engagement with the past. There is a combination of bold, dark, hard, fast lines and soft, delicate, more controlled marks. All the elements in these large-scale drawings are an engagement with my memories as well as an investigation.
