Artist Statement

Always new and different, even when it seems the same, the changeability of the sky fascinates me. The way the sky looks can make me stop talking in mid-sentence or pull the car over when driving. On a cloudy day at a glance the sky appears a uniform gray. A longer study reveals movement, dark and light areas, windows in the clouds where the blue sky shows through.

I paint a cloudy, rainy sky to hold the feeling it gives me. I capture sensuality of soft and misty rain in the early summer and how it feels when it pours buckets after weather that has parched the grass into yellow straw. I paint sunsets that bring to mind the last warmth of the evening and the little chill that runs down my back when the sun falls just below the horizon. I paint clouds that reach to the ground, when the fog rolls in and the wind disappears, and the world is so quiet I feel I must whisper.