When I enter my studio, surrounded by my materials, I am ready to let them take me on a journey. I open myself to venturing beyond my previous experience with them. Each encounter offering potential beauty— to shift a mind with a stroke, hard edge, or textured groove.

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If I choose to texture the surface of canvas, wood, metal, etc— with an application of molding paste in either an abstract or figurative style - that is the just the start of the journey. Sometimes rocky, sometimes smooth, scraped, pushed down to lay the groundwork.

 

I experiment with how a popular medium spray paint, and a traditional medium like acrylic react to it’s  newly textured terrain.Potential beauty—  discovery of beauty in these mediums is why I’ve continued to explore their unique ability to tell a story. Each crease, each raised texture, spray or stroke of paint bringing a thought or a feeling or a place to life.