Themes:
a merging of the silly and the sincere
The "sincere" : My serious paintings: Observation of nature, meditative/observational painting or responding to a space
The "silly" : Obsessions with snack food, cereal, macaroni and cheese, childhood celebrity crushes, embarrassing/funny nostalgia, my character "Ashley" and her ecstatic journaling business
Journalistic work:
Metaphor: Poetry & visual art
Color (inspired by josef albers and other colorists) and light - painters I like - Charles Burchfield, Hilma Af Klint, Forest Bess, Contemporary- Katherine Bernhardt, Dana Schutz, Josephine Halvorson