"This collection of paintings explores artists' sources for inspiration and reflection. The collection's aim is to record the moments of illumination and creativity. If these moments are captured, their magic can awe and inspire the audience as much as they do the artist. As artists, we spend so much of our time in the process of making art that we often take for granted the flickers of inspiration that drive us in a particular direction. After years of pursuing our particular interests sometimes we forget how we got there. I wanted to remember.

Lisova Mavka, oil on canvas SOLD

In this most recent work, I have chosen to focus on the direct exploration of mixed media. These materials gave me an immediacy of drawing as well as the ability to create richer surfaces, while affording me the color without which I cannot seem to work. By necessity, these works are small in scale and intimate.

I found myself drawing on rocks and I let my muse lead the way! It was not a scientific or planned journey but rather a serendipitous one, full of motifs that inspired my earliest work. They cannot help but be paintings with surfaces that delight in color and pattern, but they have returned to some of the simplest forms in which centuries of artists have found their inspiration, such as landscape, the female form and imagery from icons."