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Mixed
Media
My
work is an exploration of artistic accidents -- totally unplanned
applications of my media. I nurture these accidents, studying
how different pairings of design elements create new entities,
taking on a life of their own. Throughout the process, I'm
asking, "What if ...? as a launch pad to explore and
experiment.
I start with an image, color, shape or texture I find interesting
and build form there. Typically, I combine non-objective and
expressionist elements with representational ones. My perceptions
and feelings about the objects, textures, colors, shapes and
lines around me, are my personal visual story to be told.
I love the free spirit and expressiveness of contemporary
art, the honesty of primitive, ethnic, folk, and outsider
art, and the emotional power of abstract expressionism. But,
had it not been for the impressionists, I never would have
fallen in love with art at a very young age and found a lifelong
love of creating.
I earned my BS degree in advertising and journalism with an
art minor at the University of Florida and studied graphic
design at the Academy of Art, the California College of Arts
and Crafts, and City College in San Francisco. My husband,
Michael, and I are partners in our marketing consulting firm,
Imagination, where I've been creative driector since 1987.
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