"My aim is to create a bowl full of  joy 
Clear as the sky, 

Pure as falling cherry petals, 
Without worry, without doubt; 

Then comes full energy, endless power 
And the road to art."

Chiura Obata
Japanese - American painter  (1885-1975)

These words so eloquently express my motivations, intentions, and aspirations.  Making art is the curving of our hands into a cup to receive and reflect the glowing essence of the natural world. My work is inspired by the natural world and explores how humans place themselves within it. 

I am constantly amazed at the process of being human. Finding our place in this world is so complex and then in such a short time, we are gone.  Our experience is so temporary that I feel sure we are spirits in physical bodies and that there is so much more to life than what meets the eye.

Artmaking is a process of making the invisible visible and in that discovery may we be refreshed to see our world in a new light.