Artist Statement

From an early age I was immersed in the arts. I remember the magic of watching an image emerge from the developing tray in the basement darkroom and the afternoons spent lying under the baby grand piano, letting the waves of sound resonate through me. Texture, pattern, fluidity, and change - these earliest influences continue to unfold in my work.

In my career as a psychotherapist I found meditating on the natural world offered solace from clients’ emotional storms and metaphors for living. I am fascinated with the natural world. When I slow down, watch, and wait, life unfolds its mysteries. What is here to be known, felt, or experienced? Things that are familiar to me give way to fields of color, shape, and texture; pain ebbs into wonder. I begin as the observer, watching as ephemeral patterns emerge and dissolve, each moment a unique confluence of light and object. And then life’s chaos resolves into a deeply satisfying feeling of connection. My photography captures intimate portraits that give form to the magic and mystery that I feel, and challenge the viewer to experience the extraordinary that is in the ordinary.