How long have you been creating?

Since I was very young. I can recall sitting on the living room floor building structures with wooden blocks; some flat across the floor and some tall like buildings.

What is your media of choice?

I’ve been working with a combination of acrylic, paper mache, pastel, charcoal and conte crayon on canvas, and smaller works on paper.

What are your motivations for creating?

I have always been driven to create in some form so motivation is a built-in mechanism. It is more a question of what form will my thoughts take. I think I would become very ill if I couldn’t create.

What other artists or movements inform your work?

My work is influenced by artists of various mediums. I have always been drawn toward the abstract expressionists. Joan Mitchell, Hans Hoffman, deKooning, Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg. Also Klimt and Schiele. Miro. Brancusi. Beatrice Wood’s ceramics and their luscious glazes. The two Louises—Nevelson and Bourgeois. Howard Hodgkin. Patrick Heron.

What do you find visually stimulating right now?

Exotic reds, turquoise, pale pinks contrasted with black, rusted metal, stone walls, colorful images of India, the jewelry of Alexis Bittar, mossy greens, paintings by Hundertwasser.

What’s the last book you read?

Confessions of an Art Addict by Peggy Guggenheim. An entertaining read.

Tell us some of your artistic goals for 2006.

Continue pursuing “the element” that will take my work to the next level. Continue experimenting with materials and processes that will keep the work interesting; produce some larger scaled pieces.

What would you like your fellow EBSQ artists and collectors to know about you and or your work?

I am so happy to be a living artist. I hope it shows in my work.