As far back as I can remember I have loved drawing figures.  That attraction has stayed with me.   Now I am committed to creating art through painting.  

The human figure allows me to explore the full range of my creative process.  I can find rhythmic line in the movement of body gesture, shapes in human contours, composition with figures in relationship to one another and their environment, and content in the human story.  I suppose that much of my work would define me as a portrait artist.  I find inspiration in a pose, an expression, an attitude, a situation and I am moved to capture that "up close" and personal moment through my own emotional expression.  I love working the paint, using vivid color, and as Jeanne Dobie would say, "making color sing".