About the Artist

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.
                                                                                                       - Mark Twain



Art has always been an integral part of my life even though I am not formally educated in fine arts with the exception of a few introductory art courses in college. As a child I was surrounded by an environment enriched with the arts.  My childhood was spent amidst easels, paint brushes and turpentine while my mother taught art classes for drawing and multiple other media out of my childhood home.   You could say I lived and breathed art as a young girl and that as a result painting and drawing feels somewhat second nature to me. 

Instead of art, I pursued a career in medicine and chose pathology as my specialty. I realize now that was probably in large part due to the beautiful visual world under the microscope that I would get to experience on a daily basis. After a growing sense of living an unfulfilled life, I recently left the private practice I had been in for the past six years to pursue a part time position elsewhere which would provide more space in my life to explore my creative path. I’m rediscovering a part of myself that I’d put on hold for a long period.

So far, I’ve found that the process instead of the final product has been a way to reach a meditative, peaceful state. I find inspiration in my gardens, nature and my imagination.  Through my brush I attempt to explore the natural and mystical world and to capture the spirit of the subject I am painting.  I believe the only way to truly know nature and in turn ourselves is to study it, contemplate it, explore each exquisite detail and only then finally, truly recognize it. This I attempt through my art.

I’d like the viewer to smell the bee balm, feel the winter wind on their skin and see the butterfly fly right off the page. Our modern lives have become so overfilled with technology and multitasking that we seem to take for granted the beauty that is all around us. I hope these images will help to remind us and reawaken us to that beauty. 



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