One of the recurring themes in my art is looking at life
with the eyes of a child. I try to feed
my inner child inspiration and nurture her so she is always with me, alive and
healthy. I remember in grad school at UCSD I did very large oil on canvas that
was strongly rectangular about playing jacks as a girl with my cousins in
Montclair. There are balloons in the background and a large brown hand in the
foreground is throwing jacks in the air.
It is mostly a red painting. I equate red with fun and excitement. Now I am working with a very oily material that
I can layer up on paper—Sennelier Oil Pastels.
They were a gift and what a gift! I love that set of pastels but at
first found them on the overwhelming side. I find them much easier to work with
using an actual oil pastel pad as the support. I typically work with them for a
while and then put them back away so they last so I’ve had them over a year now. Lately I’ve been incorporating them with
chalk pastel pencil which is a slightly tricky technique but it creates very
interesting densities and textures. The
other theme I like incorporating into my work is movement—I think there is an
animator or filmmaker living deep inside me whose only escape is within my
paintings and drawings. I enjoyed so
many rides down winding, hilly country roads and would often have a pinwheel
with me, hanging it out the window. This
drawing brings together the idea of movement with the inner child. It is called Pinwheel and it is a nostalgic
look back at those road trips to the Jersey Shore and elsewhere.
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