ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Can I use art to find my way? I render what I see; how, then, shall I know my interior landscape, and paint that? What are the landmarks, the wounds, the veins, the healed-over places? If death separates us physically, can making art bring us together? How can I express the mystery of relationship, especially the mother-daughter bond?
“Live the Questions now!” said the great German poet, Rainer Maria
Rilke. This is what I do when I make art. These are some of the questions I am
living now. As a landscape painter for over 20 years, I painted en plein
air using traditional media (watercolor and pastel). The death of both parents sent
me searching in new directions for answers to the ultimate questions. Poetry,
monotype, collage, book arts, mixed media, and sculpture have given rise to new
work. Words and images find their way to each other; a recent series of monoprints
pairs the standing stones of Avebury with lines from a poem by Rilke (handset
in letterpress). Another suite of prints is based on handmade collograph plates
embedded with text fragments, printed as diptychs and hinged like a book with
collage elements or wire. Since 2000, and during two residencies at the Vermont
Studio Center, I have been working from a single poem by Maxine Kumin, “The
Envelope,” which explores the mother-daughter relationship. The work that
has flowed from it: collographs, monotypes, 3D paper pieces and installations,
formed a solo show at Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta in October
2003, which was reviewed in Art New England, Spring, 2004.
BRIEF RESUME
Selected Exhibitions
- June Fitzpatrick Gallery, 10 x 10, Portland, April 2004
- Round Top Center for the Arts, one-person show “Envelope”, Oct. 2003
- Mast Gove Galleries, various shows, 1988- 2003
- Aucocisco Gallery, Peregrine Press Juried Group Show, Portland, June 2003;
Peregrine Press Group Show, Portland, 2002, 2004 - Lupine Gallery, Women Artists of Monhegan Island, Group Show, Monhegan, July 2003
- River Tree Center for the Arts, “Monhegan” Invitational Painting
Show at the
Irvine Gallery, Kennebunk, July – August 2003 - Lupine Gallery, Group Show, Women Artists of Monhegan Island, 2002
- Lewis Gallery, “Art of the Print”, Portland Public Library, 2001
- Round Top Center for the Arts, “Island Visions/Island Voices”, Damariscotta, 2001
- Lupine Gallery, “Island Visions/Island Voices” Monhegan Island, 2001 and 2000
(envisioned and curated this collaborative show of 13 artists and 14 poets) - Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME, 2000
- Bates College Museum, Lewiston, ME, 2000
Awards
- JuneRiver Club Annual Juried Show, Kennebunkport, Maine. Best of Show/Watercolor, 1986;
Honorable Mention, 1998, 1998, 2000, 2004. - Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. Scholastic Art Awards: Gold Key.
Education
- Chatham College (Honorary Degree, 1997)
- University of Southern Maine, Bachelors Degree, 1983
- Sarah Lawrence College, Junior Year Abroad
The Sorbonne (Paris) L’Atelier Goetz (Paris) (1965-1966)
Selected Publications
- Emrys Journal, “Fog Before Seven”, 2004
- Discovery: Fifty Years of Craft Experience at haystack Mountain School of
Crafts,
edited by Carl Little, University of Maine Press, 2004 - Art New England, “Spotlight Review for Maine”, February/March 2004, Carl Little