I currently work in pencil or watercolor. Drawing, especially with pencil, is an activity I have always loved. As for painting, I started with oils, and for a long time I worked mostly in acrylics. Watercolor came late for me and almost by accident. While taking courses to reboot my art-making after eye surgery, I signed up for a 2-day workshop with watercolor artist James Toogood. That workshop was a revelation; I had no idea that watercolor could be so versatile. For the next few years I continued to study watercolor with Toogood, and it became my preferred medium for working in color. Painting in watercolor suits me in a way that neither oils nor acrylics can.

For reference images, I take many photos and sort through them over and over. I cannot put into words why a specific image will resonate with me. Some combination of abstract shapes and colors plus an undefinable emotional connection will convince me to commit its essence to pencil or to brush.

My recent drawings of bunched and draped fabrics were started during the pandemic: making sense of the random folds and shadows became my way of finding calm in the midst of chaos.