Let’s be clear: creative artistic thinking is neither a creative technique nor about painting pictures or making sculptures. This is a preconception we must get rid of. Creativity is not a prisoner of art. Rather, artistic thinking can take place anywhere,...
For a stone carver, Nature embodies what she is all about: her inspiration and her medium. After all what is a stone if not something formed underneath the Earth’s surface and risen up over time to the Earth’s crust. Additionally, recycling stone is a...
I used leftover stone and reclaimed wood to create the landscape of a Zen Garden (Honorable mention, 2019). Gold paint is the latest addition to my work of a burial ground made up of four parts: the self, the person, the living soul, and the being reunited...
This is the prestige exhibition of the year by the full, juried-in members of the first women's professional arts organization in the US. For over 100 years, NAWA has been offering women artists the Pétrie dans l’argile du temps et de l’espace, j’avance...
Heart-shaped leaf prints, 2007 Xin 心, a fundamental ideogram in Buddhist literature in general and Zen teaching in particular, means “spirit” as much as “heart”. The word spirit (spiritus, pneuma) defines the vital energy or breath that animates all beings....
Sacred space Simplicity of forms Essence of beauty Geometry Spiral of galaxies. Whirlwinds of winds. Axis of the Universe from the underground source to the firmaments, link between the vault of the ancestors and the ethereal Consciousness. Geometric...
From wire flowers and ballerinas with butterfly wings and the mixed media sculpture I made 17 years ago to a metal sculpture I designed as a result of a class I took with Donna Reinsel in 2021-2022, I have come full circle. Mind over Matter
This is my first attempt at carving in 2008, originally entitled First, which I revisited and sold under Naive Perspective in 2017. Perspective is a term used in painting and in architecture. I chose to use it figuratively as a particular way of seeing...
Creativity is a state of mind that feeds on itself and on its environment. It is intuitively understanding symbolic rules. It is hearing the faint voice of the Unconscious and persevering without a shadow of a doubt just out of passion and determination. I...
Bodhisattva (Reclaimed gray marble with wood and other salvaged materials for the stand) at the 13th Patricia Sitar Annual Juried Exhibition Unity and the Environment at Sitar Arts Center
June 15 to July 31, 2022 NAWA Summer Small Works 2022 (June 15-July 31, 2022), Look up and listen to the stars (marble)
Repurposing (sold, 2017)
Babel (Alabaster, 2013)
First at the All Arlington Salon 2008 (Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington VA)
National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) 134th Annual Members Exhibition at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, Tribeca, NYC (June 16-July 2, 2023) Bodhisattva (Reclaimed gray marble with wood and other salvaged materials for the stand)
The Lady With A Mask (2015, sold)