Bio
My Background
My inspiration
My inspiration
Owning provocative, creative and unique art serves as statement of who we are as a person – one of a kind art for a one of a kind individual. As a fine art graduate of Parsons School of Design, an award-winning restauranteur, and sculptor of over 25 years, I like to think I can relate. Creative originality is my mojo.
Back in the early 7
Owning provocative, creative and unique art serves as statement of who we are as a person – one of a kind art for a one of a kind individual. As a fine art graduate of Parsons School of Design, an award-winning restauranteur, and sculptor of over 25 years, I like to think I can relate. Creative originality is my mojo.
Back in the early 70’s my childhood was a time of happiness and imagination where anything was possible. I believe all children have this innate joy. They glow from the inside out. But, as we grow tensions rise and creativity dies.
For me the combination of Covid lockdowns, the negative impact upon my restaurant business, and turning 50 brought this perfect storm front and center. Stress was draining the life out of me.
So, I took up meditation.
My inspiration
My inspiration
My inspiration
Challenged to quiet my anxious mind, I gravitated towards guided meditations. I practiced every day morning and evening. I “worked” at meditation. Then one evening I was guided to picture my younger, smaller self and to remember a specific moment when I was truly happy. Struggling at first, I deliberately slowed my breath, and after a fe
Challenged to quiet my anxious mind, I gravitated towards guided meditations. I practiced every day morning and evening. I “worked” at meditation. Then one evening I was guided to picture my younger, smaller self and to remember a specific moment when I was truly happy. Struggling at first, I deliberately slowed my breath, and after a few beats, envisioned myself when I was all of four or five popping up on the side of a pool wearing my favourite red polka dot bathing suit over which I was sporting a frilly white skirt. On my arms I was rocking Disney floaties. Looking into that little girl's bucktoothed smiling face, laughter bubbled up unbidden, and struck by a simple truth I stammered out loud,
“We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?”
To which the little girl in my meditation grinned even broader and suddenly, surprised by my unexpected insight, I felt a thousand times lighter.
My Medium
My inspiration
My Medium
And so began my quest to come full circle.
Today, I create 3D abstract Dr Suess inspired paintings and kinetic mobile art sculptures that utilize wheels to represent the cycle of personal evolution, suspended and revolving mixed media acrylic painted figures that symbolize the interplay and shared experience we have within our environment
And so began my quest to come full circle.
Today, I create 3D abstract Dr Suess inspired paintings and kinetic mobile art sculptures that utilize wheels to represent the cycle of personal evolution, suspended and revolving mixed media acrylic painted figures that symbolize the interplay and shared experience we have within our environments, and a cast of characters that tell the story of diversity, finding where we fit, and of a life well lived in our ever-changing world.
Through my abstract paintings and narrative kinetic sculptures I choose to celebrate innocence, childlike joy, and boundless imagination, leading me to remember that...
we never had to take any of it seriously, did we?