Artist Statement
What I like about being a painter is the process of seeing/becoming empty, and without thinking painting from that place.
Have you ever noticed that no one asks a writer to paint about their writing?
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Education:1966 MFA Mills College, Oakland, CA
Studying with Ralph DuCasse
2001-2005 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
Studying with Chester Arnold
Exhibits:
Solo Shows
2006 Gestures, 142 Throckmorton Theatre Gallery, Mill Valley CA
2005 Recent Oil Paintings, Depot Bookstore & Cafe´. Mill Valley, CA
Group shows 2009, Bay Area Women artists, juried by Donna Seager, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley,CA.
2008 Invoking Spirit, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2008 Intuitive Landscape, Bucci’s Restaurant, Emeryville, CAD
2008 Open Studios, Marin Arts Council, Mill Valley, CA
2008 Annual Juried Show, Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA
2007 Two Views with Virginia Fauvre, Sebastopol Center for the Arts
2006 The Lay of the Land: The Landscapes & Environments Around Us,
Artisans Art Gallery, San Rafael, CA – Received Award of Merit
2006 January Juried Show, Gallery Route One, Point Reyes Station, CA
2006 Small Works Juried Show, Arts Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa CA
2004-2006 To Never Forget: Faces of the Fallen, national touring show:
College of Marin, Kentfield CA: Syracuse University, Syracuse NY;
Pitzer College, Claremont CA; Sonoma Valley Museum Art, Sonoma CA
1975-1990 Art to Wear, Mill Valley CA, Artist/Owner of hand-painted clothing and fabric business, including a piece in the permanent collection of the Oakland Museum