ARTIST STATEMENT

Even as a child I was attracted, instinctively, to the past, to antique and old-fashioned things. I drew pictures of them then, and still do. I do like the idea of a painting or drawing as being a window with a view, a rare, half-frozen glimpse of another world, often weirder and more dreamlike than our own.  I love painting, pen and ink and have been exploring the scratchboard medium, finding it challenging yet perfect for the treatment  of certain moods.