In the 1960’s when my children were young, I visited with my artist brother. He painted a scene for me using an old window shade stretched on an old window screen, and left-over house paint. I was fascinated. When I returned home I got out my children’s tempera paint and started painting.
After years of painting with oils, pastels and watercolors, I returned to oil paints, this time using water soluble oils on stretched canvas. I paint simplified subjects, letting the paint take me where it will, not tied to the original inspiration. I am particularly drawn to trees,"deep rooted they grow below yet stretching upward high. They touch so delicately the sky!" (Dorothy Pierson's poem--Like Trees). Painting is my way of celebrating people, places, and things around me..
After years of painting with oils, pastels and watercolors, I returned to oil paints, this time using water soluble oils on stretched canvas. I paint simplified subjects, letting the paint take me where it will, not tied to the original inspiration. I am particularly drawn to trees,"deep rooted they grow below yet stretching upward high. They touch so delicately the sky!" (Dorothy Pierson's poem--Like Trees). Painting is my way of celebrating people, places, and things around me..
