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The Earth Has Always Grounded and Inspired My Art

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Featured image: Telling the Story The earth has always grounded and inspired my art. I use stories and images from nature to bring symbols from past cultures into the present. These symbols help me make sense of life’s unpredictable journey. My current work explores the strength of the individual spirit. It looks at how nature’s calming and restorative power nurtures our talents and helps us persevere through challenges. I call moments of overcoming adversity the “yes, yes, yeses” of my life. For me, they celebrate the strength of the human spirit, especially the strength of each individual. My challenge is to express that strength in my art. I use imaginary and symbolic figures, places, and landscapes to create myths, fables, and stories with deeper meanings. These give my imagination a visible form. Working with symbols, imagination, and ideas offers creative challenges and rich ways to express what I want to say.
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Finding Balance Between Progress and Nature

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  Featured image: Rain on the Horizon I lead quite a contemplative life. I nourish my creativity through my interactions with nature and my artwork. The concept I am currently working with in my art, and actually have been working with for some time now, includes how the dominance of technology seems to have taken over our culture and how this idea of progress and technology seems to dominate over the softer ideologies, like the natural world. Mind you, I think progress and technology and moving forward are important, but I also think that there needs to be a balance for a healthy lifestyle.
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Seeing the World Anew

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  Featured work: Going for a Ride , Sculpture “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
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A Small and Fearless Spirit

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  Featured image: Winter Chickadee This scrap of valor just for play Fronts the north wind in waistcoat gray –Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Moments of Freedom

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  Featured image: Black Feather “ The soul has moments of escape. ” — Emily Dickinson
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Between Earth and Sky

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  Featured image: Marsh Grass and Blue Sky “I would like to put reason in the grass and tears in the sky.” — Paul Cézanne
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Where Color Takes Flight

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  Featured image: Rainbow Bird “Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.” — Claude Monet
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