The Class Photo Series began back in 1983, when I attended my husband's 20th high school reunion. I was intrigued by the exaggerated poses, hairdos, and draped shoulders of the women in his 1963 year book photos. Theses photos told such a story of the people and the time, both individually and collectively. I began thinking about them as portraits of inner emotional life rather than exterior likenesses. Over the years I have created a personal visual vocabulary. Until recently most of my Class Photo paintings have utilized a grid composition. I am now painting without the grid division of space. This is opening up new compositional possibilities.

My Beach Series now explores figures playing in the ocean surf. Painting a moving figure in this wet environment pushes it into abstraction. I like working on that thin line between reality & abstraction. I enjoy finding figurative gesture in paint. I am searching there for an unedited glimpse into the human condition. These moving figures relate energetically with my past work in the Swimmer and WOmen Shopping Series. Recently I am cropping the figures tighter, thus reducing the landscape setting. My new paintings are becoming more abstract, and the wet into wet paint is becoming thicker. I continue my practice of painting with commitment and pleasure.