My interest is in finding ways to express what I feel, what dazzles me, and what stops me in my tracks. It’s an inner landscape that I paint, though I most often use the metaphor of nature to help me make those feelings visible. The shapes I am drawn to are those of unstoppable growth, which is for me a kind of hope. The medium I use most is watercolor. I am excited by pushing this medium out of its traditional confines in order to get the effects I am after, which are paintings with some mystery and room for the viewer to bring their own experience and imagination.