About me

I still find it difficult to call myself an artist, but I am at my happiest when I am busy creating; whether it is cooking, gardening, knitting, sewing, crocheting, painting, writing, or building.

How does one define art?

If art is the act of creating something new (for you) then every act is an act of creation because nothing can be the same as ever before, even if you do it a 100,000,000 times.  Some aspect will differ, the people you are with, the circumstances you are in, your frame of mind, your experience, etc.

If art means being unique, then how else.  No one can be like you or make a mark like you or interpret anything like you, even if you are painting the same thing with the same instructions, from the same angle, each one will be different.

What about Contemporary Art?

Some of contemporary art these days is radical, trying to overthrow everything that has gone before, to shock, to move you, to anger, to frustrate, to make you feel revulsion, as long as you feel something. As though it has to be evocative to be art, and yet I suppose it does have to do that, because if it leaves you with no response to it, it has failed.

So what about me?  I love making marks. I can be messy, or controlled, rarely in between.  I suppose that is my challenge, to marry the right and left brain and get something that works between the two.

I love making something out of nothing.  I never have a plan of what I must draw.  It is an organic process that develops.  I haven't ever found a blank page daunting because I make marks and paint and mess, and out of that, something emerges. I see something that 'talks to me' and then I enhance that, push some things back and enhance others, and voila!, it is done.

Process Art works for me

So Process Art really works for me. I don't get precious about my work as it can always be changed. My preferred medium is mixed media. Using paper, inks, dyes, glue, pens, pencil, charcoal, material, textile, yarn, or whatever feels right at the moment. I work on canvas, board, cardboard, and various other bits and pieces.

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