Women--A spiritual source

I have chosen to work with the timeless image of women. As a painter I feel I am able to speak most honestly using this subject as my voice, since I am a woman. It is my goal to create emotionally powerful images of women that speak of primal and spiritual subjects to everyone. I believe it is important to contribute consistently positive imagery of women. My subjects are usually alone and often make unswerving eye contact with the viewer. They confront yet they also defer. Often they are squeezed into confined spaces, much like we all are confined in the limitations of our own lifetimes. At times they have animals with them, animals that have their own particular messages to convey. I have been told that my work conveys spirituality as well as creating intense responses, both comfortable and uncomfortable. The women I depict often appear as though they are standing before an altar. It is my goal to put forth work that comes from the heart and speaks of the soul. It is my hope that my work speaks in a private and profound way to anyone who chooses to look at it.

"The Light-Boned Bird," "Three Resting Women," and "Sweet Dignity" have all appeared previously in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women 15:1 (Winter 1993-1994).

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