Artist’s Statement

Simply put, I make really happy art from repurposed materials.  People who own my art tell me that it makes them happy everyday.  So it is all those little words of encouragement that keeps me searching for the discarded materials I love to create with.  I can be found at sign shops collecting taken down business signs, rummaging through bins of scrap plastics at a plastic fabricating company, walking through architectural salvage yards looking for the perfect old frame or window or looking on the shelves of home improvement stores for colorful mistake paint to reuse and inspire me.

Then I carry it all back to my cottage studio that dates back to the 1800′s.  It is there on 234 acres of preserved farmland, next to a thriving art center and alongside local farmers and fields that I paint, create and design pieces of joyful art.  There is usually music playing, candles burning and coffee brewing as I put on my plaid artist shirt and orange apron and start the wonderful process I call “work”.

Reusing objects and materials is something I have done since childhood.  I preferred second hand jeans bought at a flea market to new clothes.  I felt as though I became part of someone else’s history and I feel the same way about my art.  I look at discarded objects and see what they can become.  I love living with possibility!