Please allow a few seconds for loading. My figurative works celebrate solitary or shared time in places that I know. I want to capture significant activities of figures outdoors. You put a person in a landscape and the landscape sings. My work, in the massing of color and the use of pattern, is indebted to Matisse, Bonnard , Milton Avery and Jacob Lawrence .
Collage is a very forgiving medium.
I lay it down, look at it, and move it around. In my work, I wish to simplify and abstract my experience of an activity in a specific place. Originally, I was inspired by Dorothea Rockburne's folded paper work. Buttons are commonplace but evoke individual memories and associations. My button collages become mapped landscapes or metaphors for larger social concerns.