ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores female identity and the place of women in society. I am inspired by women, their relationships with others, and with their own selves. I was a fashion designer for many years and as an artist I still express my ideas through depictions of the female torso. The torso itself is suggestive of the fragmented lives that women lead despite their desire to have it all.

In each painting, I build multiple layers of paint - scraping, scratching and reapplying to resolve the negative space that surrounds my protagonists. The lines are blurred, and I sometimes add paper or fabric to help resolve the shapes. I have always been drawn to Matisse, who said, “What interested me in painting was a clarification of my ideas.”