In my classes, I have two major goals. One goal is to provide a technical background which includes an introduction to basic skills and visual considerations as well as a variety of options which are available within each medium. Of equal importance, I also emphasize the process of making art as a quest of personal discovery, growth, and cognitive liberation. Through art, you have the opportunity to access and acknowledge the incredible richness of the visual world, the vitality of imagination, and your own unique potential and individuality. Art can be a vehicle for challenging conceptual limitations and embracing both life and art as an interconnected process of investigation, discovery, and wonder.
In my own creative work, I have been involved in a series of paintings in sand and acrylic, which reflect my long term fascination with the processes of transformation in nature, in time, and in the archetypal imagination. These paintings have been informed by a variety of sources including my background in printmaking and sculpture. Above all, I regard my working process as a persistent creative journey in which each step suggests the next exploration involving new questions, surprises, and possibilities.
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