I began my journey with watercolor as a purist. I used no white nor black and gravitated toward mostly transparent colors. I love to layer my colors and see through to the original layers. I enjoy scrubbing back to reveal the life underneath. As I moved into playing with texture, I loved breaking up the colors/light into smaller and smaller fragments. Increasingly my watercolors are becoming combined with other media as I explore the contrast of opaque acrylics against the transparent watercolor or the repulsion of watercolor to oil pastel….which moves me to mixed-media work. I still often return to pure watercolor and it remains a joy. see watercolor gallery>>

Once I discovered the mixing of acrylic with watercolor, I was doomed to eternal play with new media. I am currently finding that my work may cry out for an oil pastel line, or a watercrayon or pencil line or the use of inks or even the introduction of some collage. I am still in love with layers and often use a matt medium isolation coat between layers as I thickly build the surface. Now when I scrape through the present layer to reveal the past, it takes more energy but results in a more coherent work as the past and the present come together to create a new work. see mixed media gallery>>

My collage papers are produced using artist quality craft paper which I paint, marble, splatter or stamp using either watercolor or acrylic paints. Some are “altered papers”, a result of using an organic cleaning product, Citrasolve, on old magazines which are printed on clay based paper. Some papers are “found papers” which I recycle into my art. All papers are adhered and encased in an archival medium. When they are not mounted under glass, they are coated with a UV resistant varnish. see collage gallery>>