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I am a painter and a writer and the two actions seem to me to feed each other, opening me to see the world simultaneously in light and metaphor. I paint what pleases me and what moves me. My paintings are of people, things and places I love and most of my paintings have personal historical references. The act of painting is a meditation for me, awakening me to “all this joy and beauty,” in the words of my grandmother’s favorite prayer. In a way, my painting is also an act of longing. It is an effort to c
I learned to paint by studying with individual artists that I admired rather than going to art school. So I never took the course on how to write an artist statement. During the last fourteen years that I’ve been painting, I’ve also been working on being more fully present, less distracted by random thoughts. It’s interesting to me how “presence” opens up and closes down and how we can gradually with practice learn to be more “present.” The pandemic really gave me a lot of time to practice this! When I