I love creating faces and compositions in a style I loosely call abstract cubism – not fully abstract and not fully cubist but a combination of the two.  When I create faces, I am creating my own little world of people and I love getting lost in it.  How do I want to align all parts of the face?  Do I want to leave off any parts of the face?  I recently started paintings florals and landscapes again after many years of not doing it.  The challenge – and it is fun – is to paint a landscape or floral in my style while maintaining an interesting composition for the viewer.

I don’t have, and will never have, a BFA and an MFA in painting but have been studying for over 20 years.  I won’t be a full time painter until I retire because I work full time to support myself.  I love painting at home because I am surrounded by my work all the time and I like have my paintings close by when I am trying to figure out a problem with composition or color.  I don’t think my constraints make me less of an artist – they make me more devoted to painting my vision.  I have always been fascinated by business.  Running my art business and learning all that I need to in order to be successful is very satisfying.  It is exciting to be a one woman operation and I refuse to give it up.

So, I always remind myself to keep creating, keep growing, keep studying other artists, and keep learning from them.  Most of all, I remind myself to never lose hope in me and what I can do.