Artist Statement

In my paintings am idealizing the universal flower or leaf, seeing the leaf or flower as an icon, an object of contemplation and meditation.

Some of the flower paintings are designed using a circular mandala or labyrinth pattern, representing calm and wholeness for the psyche.

The linear sections within some of these paintings are like the lines of a musical composition, or lines of poetry. I am telling my story line by line, a story of the beauty I saw in a particular place and time.