I dream and I paint.
I work in oil, and handmade paints, manipulating the surfaces to a desired outcome. I prefer to use locally sourced organic materials— home stretched canvases and wooden surfaces.
I believe that we are vessels for ideas.
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Useful Tools
Inspired by the times we live in, I am exploring our relationship with ‘archaic objects’ in this age of technology and instant gratification. Manual typewriters and adding machines. Tools found at flea markets. The beauty of their designs and the weight of their intentions inspire me.
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Portraits
Opening and operating bookstores in San Francisco since 1985, I have had the opportunity to interact with many varieties of people. I have been inspired, dismayed, and eventually star-struck by the potential of the human spirit.
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Quadrupeds
Life-size portraits of animals are my form of cave painting.