Coming from a family of women makers, I am an abstract painter who has a foot in textiles, printmaking, and works on paper. While studying Textile Surface Design, my advisor observed “You think more like a painter than a designer”, prompting reevaluation and redirection. Since then, my work focuses on linen and its woven cousins, color theory, and found forms. My practice resides between the intersection of materiality as objectiveness (woven textiles and painted material fields) and surface figurations as representation (paint and ink, formal geometric patterns, and abstracted biomorphic forms).
Although Roland Barthes was speaking about humanities’ general condition when he wrote “work is a defense against mortality”, my personal cancer journey and the Covid pandemic drive and give subjectivity to my work while posing questions about the context and relational configurations of hope, healing, and generosity. I am inspired by the nature of being alive, by abstracted forms sharing and separate, by spatial configurations of touch and distance, and by the perception of color and light. These are the emotive aspects and contradictions of experience that link and propel my varied series.