Greece: The Caryatids of the Erechtheum, Temple of Athena and Poseidon, Athens

Like many artists, I work in a number of mediums and have shown my watercolors, drawings, prints and collages in Chico for 20 years both in one-person and group shows.
While all mediums have their seductive qualities, it is the illusiveness, accidental happenings, and challenges of watercolor that keep me coming back to it again and again. It is a well that never goes dry.

I enjoy painting in watercolors outdoors. It is my greatest and happiest challenge to be interpreting the scene so that you can begin to get a sense of the uniqueness of the place, it’s color, and it’s texture through my eyes. I work spontaneously, reacting emotionally and intuitively to the scene. My outdoor work is airy and light.

My watercolors in the studio are a different breed. There I channel my imagination and found objects to find the limits of watercolor, often building layers of watercolor to achieve a  velvety patina. Color and contrast and mood are what I strive to evoke in the studio.

My collages are mostly non-objective abstracts. They are small and difficult for me. They stretch my compositional abilities, and in turn make my representational paintings stronger.

My work is available in Chico at the Sally Dimas Gallery on East Avenue and at Art on Broadway in the All Fired Up Studio, and during Chico Open Studio Tour at Cantello Studio on Northgraves Avenue.