SCULPTURE: 
     My sculpture and installations are inspired by the small little gems I frequently come across in nature: shells, seeds, fossils plants, and sealife. Many of my forms are built from materials often used in exhibit design such as steel, epoxies, cement, sand, fabric, paper, and fiberglass. Several years ago, I worked a summer job assembling life-sized fiberglass trees for a local zoo. This experience had a great impact on my work. The concept of recreating existing species of life out of manufactured materials, so that others can experience nature, was both intriguing and contradictory to me. My current sculpture unfolded from this experience. My 3-dimensional art embraces the primal forces that nature carries and stems from the notion that life is impermanent, but spirit is eternal.
     As a young girl, I would walk the streets looking for unique found objects or junk that I would combine together or reconfigure into new forms. Today, I am still constructing forms only on a larger scale.  My passion for creating sculpture is as strong today as it was back then, when I was that little girl combing through her pile of treasures.

PAINTINGS:
     My Paintings are dense relief-like images that are formed by layering, carving, sanding and reapplying paint. I also work with colored sand over an adhesive; "a sort of artistic composite of dust to dust". Each work is a journey in paint or sand that captures the essence of my own spiritual evolution. The beholder travels through timeless swirls and spaces built from thickly layered marks and dashes inspired by ancient cultures. 
     Many of my paintings have been aesthetically inspired by viewing images of the minute and intricate world seen under a microscope. I am equally moved by recent photos taken from the Hubble Space telescope of our vast and mysterious cosmos. These powerful images, have stimulated my imagination and stirred me with their beauty. They remind me that I am a tiny particle in an infinite universe. 
    My absorption of spiritual books led me to explore works that have been created for ritualistic purposes; works such as: Australian Aboriginal western desert paintings, Tibetan sand mandalas, Native American dry paintings and ancient Latin American stelas. I am attracted and influenced by these cultures mystical images because they were created for purposes of healing; achieving inner peace, appealing to their Gods and mapping concentration points of intense sacred significance. They are sublime examples of works that give form to the invisable forces that make up all creation.