Sometimes I am asked who I was influenced by. I don't think of being influenced in terms of style, but more like permission .

Abstract Expressionism artists De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko and Kandinsky who expressed themselves through color and brush stroke rather than image, gave me permission to “paint outside the lines”, allowing me the freedom to CREATE rather than RE-CREATE.

For example, if I were a realist and wanted to paint a picture of a cow, I am stuck with one way to paint a cow. As an abstractionist I have an infinite number of ways to paint a cow.

Rather than being planned or thought out, my pieces are more of a “Happening”.

I approach a blank surface, not with willfulness, but a willingness to allow a higher part of me (I call my Muse) to express herself in the material world.

I am her medium for expression. She uses me, as I use the materials at hand, to bring forth something never before expressed.