ARTISTIC STATEMENT

      All my life, I have been moved by and drawn to color, form and texture.  I have struggled to fine ways in which I could connect with those strong emotions aroused in me when I observed vivid color, bold form or strong texture.  I mastered first one craft and then another, never recognizing that I was striving to find the right way for me to express the passion within me.  Then I put a paintbrush loaded with cerulean blue oil paint on a canvas and I knew that I had arrived, arrived at that place where I could realize my world view in a tangible and permanent way.  I also perceived that I had just begun the long process of learning the techniques to enable me to do that.

     In my art, I strive to do "niente senza gioia"--nothing without joy.