Defining the creative spark can be difficult. Sometimes it is connected to a flash or a vision that needs to be executed upon. Other times it can have everything to do with a mood, feeling or setting.

It can be an elongated process of building layer upon layer — sometimes moving forward and other times backward — but the key is pressing ahead and following the journey to its completion.

We have curated a set of paintings that are each special in their own right, often for different reasons...

But there is one thread in common among these works: they each define a turning point in the development of my career as an artist.

Seven different series of paintings have been developed so far that range from geometric to atmospheric to swirl styles.

The first two, Shangri La and Abstract Landscape, celebrate Mother Earth; the second pair, Dreamscape and Aurora Borealis, explore the relationship between the sea and sky; and the last three, Geometric, Ice Cube, and Swirl, capture my love for movement, mood, music and storytelling.

I yearned to find a peaceful place within myself. Painting idyllic, imaginary places like Shangri La became an escape for me — a place to explore, get lost, and recenter.

Abstract Landscapes represent an early style of my creative portfolio and stem from my fascination with the natural world and love for Monet and Van Gogh.

Since my early painting days as a child, I always sought to depict the same kind of tenderness and candor of the outdoors with which these masters achieved. This aspiration laid the bedrock for my abstract landscape works, which I still paint today.

The Dreamscape Series explores my wonderment of the sea.

Featuring hazy tones like blues, pinks and purples, and iridescent pigments, like pearls and metallics, Dreamscapes depict a graceful journey from reef beds to the open water to the glorious sky.

The Aurora Borealis series strives to emulate one of nature’s greatest ethereal moments.

Dynamic gestures are captured with giant splashes of color—often defined by exploding pools of purples, pinks and blues.

Like the Aurora Borealis, when I create, my spirit radiates and is unafraid to shine.

Finally, we arrive at the Geometric, Ice Cube, and Swirl series.

On the surface, these bodies of work show a disparity in composition, shape, and even, perhaps, color — but they are incredibly form-driven. They are reliant on the movement of my palette knife, the music I am listening to, or the mood of the moment.

They challenge me to create structure in abstraction, to balance their respective spectrum of symmetry, to utilize the limitations of a surface to create depth in their meaning.

The Geometric series marks the beginning of my professional career as an artist.

My first geometric work emerged in 1993 with Walking on Sunshine, a plein air landscape inspired by a delicious summer day. The vertical and horizontal marks show my mind as a financial analyst—a rigid lifestyle governed by mathematics, strategy, and algorithms.

After closing my chapter on the corporate world, my geometric paintings provided me with a comfortable platform to reflect on old routines and regain my artistic strength.

The Ice Cube shape has emerged as my artistic fingerprint — triumphantly expressing the human spirit through adversity. It represents the process involved in overcoming personal challenges. I often equate the use of geometric shapes to setting “boundaries” or, conversely, being “boxed in.”

Detail: Ice Cube 4

2017, 40 x 40 inches
Oil on canvas

The Swirl series encapsulates all facets of my artistic interests and abilities: music, storytelling, and pop culture.

Communicated through texture, movement, and color, the Swirl series captures my childhood doodles as well as iconic music, movies, songs, and books that have inspired me during my dynamic career as a media analyst/executive and as a mother.

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