Statement

This new series of oil paintings are an exploration of my interest in understanding the

interconnectedness of ecosystems and the human body. I am interested in, and the scientific fact and that nature will help us solve human made problems.

Bodies of water and the verdant woods near my home in New Hampshire influence the color palette in these works. Each painting is memory- based, and the images appear in a spontaneous and intuitive process. Often, I use certain colors and stack the biomorphic shapes, so they negate and influence each other. I wanted the paintings’ vertical and portrait format to evoke movement, tension and the emotional experience of sinking beneath the waters’ surface and colliding into a world of fluorescent marine life and flora. These paintings became a metaphor for my subconscious feelings of grief and loss after the death of my husband.

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In the “Wrack Lines” series the paintings appear after a long process of applying and subtracting saturated oil paints with translucent overlapping layers. I like to imagine that in this aquatic ecosystem, domains of darkness and clusters of color can coexist, creating a world within a world. With a birds-eye- view perspective while painting, I remembered the images of the wrack lines and the undulating forms of coastal debris and organisms that remain on the shoreline after a storm and the daily tides. This series represents my thoughts about the environmental impact of the floating islands of coastal debris in our oceans.