Art To Contemplate

Being a professional writer for over 40 years, my life was on “deadline.”

After publishing my last piece of writing in 2019, I simply discovered I had

nothing left to say. I had run out of the words that I had loved for so many

years. But really, I was looking for a new “language.” I wanted to share my

thoughts in a different artform.

Twenty years of my forty-year-career had been spent interviewing artists

for notable art and design magazines. I discovered visual artists and

writers operate from the same personal space. What we create is our way

of understanding what we’re thinking. And so, I began taking art classes in

the Washington, D.C. area. It’s been six years now, and I look at my work

as bodies rather than pieces.

My inspiration has been drawn from countless mid-century abstract

expressionists. All of my works are in acrylic; some are mixed media.

Some of my paintings have been “problem children” at one point in their life

or another, while others are magical happenings. Like children, I think they

all turned out the way they were supposed to. Each piece has been a

journey, a new discovery, an adventure. It’s all the same really—pen and

paper, or paintbrush and canvas—these are ways we strive to

communicate with the world around us.