I come from an academic background and have no formal training in art.  I purposefully try to create spontaneously, from an emotional, rather than intellectual, center.  I am continually surprised, intrigued and often delighted, by the results. 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

When I painted Last Conversation (in 2001) I was thinking about my fascination with blinds, shades and windows, and grieving over my mother’s recent death. When the paint dried, I immediately saw that the gel medium I was using both to transfer the pigment and as a resist had created two figures on the left side of the canvas.  (I had consciously used labels as a resist to create the “blinds” on the right.)  But what did they mean?  Months later, I decided I needed to hand stitch this piece.  I worked on it, off and on, for several years, but it never seemed quite done.  In 2007 I took it up again, finished the handstitching and machine quilted it.  I realized I was having a “dialogue” with it as I quilted.  The piece resonated with the conversations my mother and I had had during the year she lived with me as she was dying.  We never knew which conversation would be the last, so every one had to count.  I felt a pure sense of joy when the piece was completed.  That week, my brother, who is a psychologist, mentioned to me that the process of grieving usually takes an individual six years.  Yes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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