I am a process-oriented collage and word artist who lives in Austin, Texas. An old ping pong table, a book case, and many storage bins hold my art materials in my garage. 

Born in Houston, Texas, I studied sculpture and life drawing in Mexico City. For over 20 years I was a textile artisan, (running the textile arts company, ‘Straw into Gold), in the artist colony of St-Ives, England.  

 Inspired by my previous career as a Registered Play Therapist, I experience the application of paper, glue, and paint as meditation. I make internal associations as I create.

Prisoner of Love

My early textile and watercolor art was inspired by a love of nature. My journals for the past year use collage materials to comment on modern culture. These large books create photo journal characters and spew relational one liners between men and women on watercolor paper. The aim is to reveal the contradictions inherent in our romances through humor. They tell my true memoirs.

Prominent is fairness theory, in which judgments drive individual assignments of responsibility. Some may believe that relational theories have no relevance in decorative art. Enter Simone’s critical view of the world. With her comes intrapersonal knowledge filled with humor, satire, and sarcasm. Her male counterparts are less well developed. Simone is the star.

The superficial intent is to engage the viewer in the outrageous world of modern fashion models. The secondary background stories paint battlefields of power. Clothing, setting, and body language evoke the perineal distancing of people.

My inspiration for the material comes from my life roles as much as my teachers and other artists on Facebook and YouTube. I have learned mark making techniques and seen pithy statements intended to make the viewer a co-author in the work. Humor can create a raw evolution of thought and association. Just one new idea can have changed my perception forever.

The use of materials in my work is calculated as well as accidental. I am often surprised by avenues of the unexpected. Textures, marks, and layers often bring an ironic twist to things I might not expect. Juxtapositions can provoke participants to new and perhaps unexplored territories.