I like to use my art to tell stories and think of the page that I work on as a mini-theatre. When I sit down to do a drawing, I have no idea how it will turn out. I may look at something around the room and briefly sketch it or I may use a portion of something that I have drawn before. Then from a group of random forms and shapes I create a story. The story develops as I'm drawing. I may start with a pillow on a bed with a box next to it and end up with a dog rescuing a little boy from drowning.
I like the detail that I can get in my work by using drawing media and mixing it with paint. I use charcoal, pencils, pastels, and water-based crayons with acrylic paints. I like working small and carry around a sketchbook that I can pull out to work on wherever I am.
A lot of my drawings include images of things that have been traumatic to me in my life. Some symbols get repeated often: animals, water, monsters, concentration camp images, and innocent figures. I am intrigued by how my imagination gets reflected on the page and how the work then takes on a life of its own.
This July marked my 26th year as an Early Childhood teacher, working both in the public school setting for TUSD and as the director of my own school. I am currently a TUSD teacher on the far southwest side of Tucson for the PACE program, a public preschool for low-income families. I graduated from the University of Arizona with my BFA in 1983 and am returning to the art world after a long hiatus.
I like the detail that I can get in my work by using drawing media and mixing it with paint. I use charcoal, pencils, pastels, and water-based crayons with acrylic paints. I like working small and carry around a sketchbook that I can pull out to work on wherever I am.
A lot of my drawings include images of things that have been traumatic to me in my life. Some symbols get repeated often: animals, water, monsters, concentration camp images, and innocent figures. I am intrigued by how my imagination gets reflected on the page and how the work then takes on a life of its own.
This July marked my 26th year as an Early Childhood teacher, working both in the public school setting for TUSD and as the director of my own school. I am currently a TUSD teacher on the far southwest side of Tucson for the PACE program, a public preschool for low-income families. I graduated from the University of Arizona with my BFA in 1983 and am returning to the art world after a long hiatus.
