CREATIVE AT AN EARLY AGE
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Growing up in New York, I was privileged to receive my informal education in and out of museums, art galleries, and fabric houses. I hold an advanced love of textiles & textures, touching anything & everything, wherever I go.
My early fascination with Impressionism began a lifelong infatuation with Monet’s Waterlillies, his broad strokes and vibrant colors. Inspired by my enormous love of art, and its grandiose place in this world, I challenged myself to paint, paint and paint more.
I am a self-taught large format abstract acrylic painter. Drawn to as large a canvas as I can hold, that initial blank space arouses an even larger excitement and fuels my imagination. As frustration is a normal occurrence, there is definitely magic in seeing the mistakes I make turn into my very own creations.
I imagine to watch me paint is like watching a woman put on her makeup without her glasses, cake on layer upon layer haphazardly, each color evoking another.
I am also fortunate to have lived in Los Angeles with my husband and two children for almost two decades. In 1999, we moved cross-country to the gorgeous waters of Miami where we now live as empty nesters.
In art there is no such thing as, “practice makes perfect”!
My personal mission is to... Always experiment, stay adventurous, and have courage with my found language, art.
Eternally grateful to my talented parents!
First love: Monet
Always loves: Larry Poons and Joan Mitchell
ARTIST STATEMENT
Grateful to have captured my place in this world of talents, and fortunate to love what I do!
DNA of my father, an art dealer and mother, Interior designer, my visual upbringing and exposure was rich in beauty, knowledge and love of art.
As a self taught painter, I find myself encouraged and stimulated by the beauty of nature, color, textures and French Music.
My work, truly my personal journal, are translations of beautiful moments and experiences, breathtaking gardens, masterful works of art and architecture, the kind that make you stop and gasp in amazement.
Blessed to travel, I am beguiled by France, its artistic and inimitable charm, culture, love, romance, Impressionism, Monet and music. Instudio, I paint while listening to a selected french pop music playlist filled with expressive intensity.
It is with tiny brushes, sponge’s, Golden acrylics, lots of music and physicality that I translate images and moments, some seen and unseen, many times dreamt up through the night.
My work is that moment, a vision, an interpretation of beauty now a transformation onto canvas.
My current body of works are conceptions of gardens, a series of large and small organic and deliberate childlike strokes and markings, a giant coloring book come to life.
Several newer pieces are created with tissue paper where I sculpt random representational flowers, sometimes butterflies forming a three-dimensional impression bursting with texture, energy and breath.
My process always involves applying acrylic hues, bright, warm and moody wiping off to an ultra light transparency creating an impressionistic tone.
Each piece tells a story, one that draws you in, a quiet, peaceful sophistication revealing many beautiful markings avant garde and filled with surprise.
(Selected Shows)
Jan. 2023 Saladrigas Gallery - Group Exhibition, South Miami, Florida
March 2023 Las Olas Art Fair, Ft. Lauderdale Florida
April 2023 Downtown Delray Beach Festival of The Arts, Delray Beach, Florida
Jan. 2022 Boca Fest Art Show at Town Center, Boca Raton Florida
April 2022 Downtown West Palm Beach Art Festival, W. Palm Beach, Florida
Jan. 2022 St. Armands Circle Art Festival, Sarasota, Florida
April 2022 Downtown West Palm Beach Art Festival, W. Palm Beach, Florida
April 2022 Downtown Delray Beach Festival of The Arts, Delray Beach, Florida
Feb. 2022 Downtown Stuart Art Festival, Stuart, Florida
Feb. 2021 ArtiGras Fine Arts Show, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
2021 Uptown Naples Fine Art Festival, Naples, Florida
2021 Boca Fest Art Show at Town Center, Boca Raton, Florida
2021 Downtown Delray Beach Festival of The Arts, Delray Beach, Florida
Feb. 2021 SOMI Art Fest on Sunset, South Miami, Florida
Mar. 2021 Las Olas Art Fair, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Jan. 2020 Beaux Arts Festival of Art, Coral Gables, Florida
2020 ArtServe Fort Lauderdale - Group Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2019 The Broward Art Guild Gallery - Group Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida