My work explores themes of pleasure, embodiment, and transformation through experimental figurative scenes. Responsive to our times, my paintings serve as reclamations of power through play and nature-driven aesthetics to depict authentic intimacy. Continuing the Feminist Art objective of moving from object to subject, I have developed a lexicon of female figures, plants, and animals deeply engaged with each other. In the paintings, figures embrace potted plants, kiss birds, hug bouquets of roses to their chests, arms pricked by thorns, trees are joyfully pregnant, dogs play the piano, and figures merge entirely with nature to become human-tree queens. Spiriting resourceful self-actualization of one’s own happiness and the interconnected relationship between “woman and the vegetable.”
Drawing both perceptually from life and imagined imagery, my process begins with cumulative drawings that build upon the previous idea and compositional structure. The drawings are the starting point for paintings which undergo a similar process of intuitively responding to the previous mark. My process is a continuous cycle of experimentation, mistakes, indulging, letting go, expanding, honing, and sharpening with the final objective of promoting meaningful, spacious depictions of joy.