Creating Layers, Transforming Vision

I was attracted to visual, and particularly abstract, art very early in life from ad-libbing the pages of coloring books and taking liberties with the lessons learned at the Baltimore Museum of Art in my early elementary years, to those post-class excursions through the museum's Matisse and Picasso collections with my father, who simultaneously was studying painting himself.

After a 60-year hiatus from painting, and a growing interest in abstract photography, I began new explorations with camera, brushes and knives, ultimately inspired by the real and imagined layers of natural and urban subjects. Layers can be created digitally, through thick applications of paint, or by stacking papers, cardboard, paint and found materials, creating both depth of vision and depth of meaning.

Art inspired by natural beauty and urban chaos