About Me
Each painting, either of carefully and colorfully drawn shapes painted directly onto watercolor paper with a brush, or if they are constructed of bits and pieces of colored, drawn, and cut watercolor-paper shapes which are then glued onto another piece of paper, takes its own time to think through. I assemble, redraw and repaint.
Making a collage is the painterly equivalent of writing a poem, if the equivalent of painting a watercolor is writing a short story. The poem and the short story both need the right kind of words, right kind of sounds, color, and nuance, each word, by word, by word.
If you want to change a word in a poem, you can cross out or erase the offending word.
To exchange one piece of cut paper for another in a collage, you must unglue, clean, let dry and then glue again.
A watercolor can be altered slowly and carefully, color by color, shape by shape.
Writing a poem, it’s hard to pretend the wrong word doesn’t bother you. It is equally hard to persuade yourself that the wrong color or shape or size piece of paper or placement is fine if it is not what the creator feels is needed.
In the Studio
Making paintings is essentially creating illusions. I use these illusions as explanations of what I am thinking about.
I have my ideas about what a painting of mine means; others can have their own thoughts.
Each painting is carefully drawn and painted. The elements of chance come into play as colors and shapes are laid against each other. Each color applied affects every other color. Every line drawn influences what will come next.
I paint directly onto watercolor paper using the largest and best brush I can, depending on what is being painted. A good brush will hold a lot of paint and form a good point.
