My first art memory is at 16, hearing a critique from my art teacher.  I couldn’t understand why she wasn’t more impressed with the reasoning behind my work.  There were three soldiers in a forest, and the one with the longest hair was dead, the one with ear-length hair was wounded, and the one standing and looking robust had short hair.  This was a clear message, from an early stage hippie, that it was dangerous to have long hair in the era of the VietNam War. 

 

I was faced with a conundrum that has been apparent throughout my art experience, that the distance from a well-reasoned idea to the output of a visual image can be a difficult road to traverse.

 

You will see the same trajectory from ideas to art and back again in the most recent exhibition “What Matters” and in the gallery area on this site. Three groups of artwork begin a much deeper exploration into the human experience as the artwork focuses on relationships, feelings and what we believe.