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 Born Detroit, Michigan
Resident of Maui, Hawaii since 1979
Artist statement
I am often asked about the meaning in my paintings. There is no one answer. Often they are a story or a prayer I am telling myself and as the images emerge I am able to let go and follow along. I am learning to dance with what ever it is that inspires me.
The easel is like the breath or mantra in meditation. It is solid, there, while I float. It grounds what I reach for. My self worth is so much a part of this. It is such a blessing to integrate this floating with work.
Other times it seems the muse takes over and then the meaning becomes ambiguous and lies in what you, the viewer, give to it. You are the creator of that part. I simply dove down into the shadow or reached up to the heavens to my muses, integrating something I am not exactly sure of.
There are archetypes in my work anchored in my study of fairy tales. I never did stop believing in Santa Claus, (after all, I was born on Christmas) he just has a new name now. I am inspired by the ideas of Jung and Rumi among countless others. Life, apparently, is a big dream and we are the creators. The magic road for me is in the paintings.
There is more, painting has a bottom line for me, that of playing with texture and color. The images are but a vehicle for that. I am an artist and I am also a craftsman. Art is metaphysics, at times tedious in its process. It is there that my love of technique helps me. It alleviates the stagnancy, the block that can be so disturbing. Interestingly enough, my mothers maiden name was Kraft and my fathers name was Art.
My true love is color. It is the litmus test for me as I watch my paintings. I sit before the canvas with a possible idea but am only intrigued with what emerges as long as the color is exciting to me. I See color. I feel color. It is the bottom line of what I remember beauty to be.
Education
1966 Aspen institute of art~ painting
1967-68 Colorado Women’s College~ studied art and theater
1969-70 University of Colorado Painting and fairytales
1970 University of Denver~ music
1971 Pete Walton’s studio Anchorage Alaska~ studied batik, the art of nature and printmaking
1986-1990 Apprenticed with master painter Julian Ritter, Maui Hawaii~ oil painting
Published By
Spirit Mountain Los Angeles California
Inner Art Cards, National distribution suns and moons
Island Art Cards, Maui Hawaii
Image Station, Maui Hawaii
Cedo Corporation, Internationally distributed calendars and posters 1999
Magazines and publications
Art business news
License magazine
US Art magazine~ feature article 2000
Dog World~ feature article 2008
Art business news~ feature article 1999
Shows and Events
1975 Girdwood Forest Fair, Girdwood AK
1977 East End Road Art~ Yul Kiltcher’s Homestead, Homer Alaska
1983 Le Nu invitational show~ Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center
1984 Invitational Art Show, Seabury Hall
1988 O New York City
1988 Maui juried art
1988 Musart~ Moving Mountains album cover
1989 Atrium gallery~ Maui Community college
1989 Klein Fein and Nikki Gallery featured artist and owner
1990 Hui No’eau Visual arts Center~ juried art show
1991 Hui No’eau Visual arts Center~ juried art show
1994 Hui No’eau Visual arts Center~ juried art show
1997 Spirit Mountain solo exhibition, Laguna Beach California
1998 Lahaina Art Society two-woman show
1999-2001 Lahaina Art Society board of directors, contributing artist
1999 California Gift Show
1999 New York Art Expo
2000 Shaffer gallery invitational Tai Chi Art Exhibition
2000-2002 Lahaina Art Society assistant director children’s art prog.
2001-2003 Four Seasons Resort, “Artists of Maui”
2001 Hui No’eau Visual arts Center~ juried art show
2005 Hui No’eau Visual arts Center~ juried art show
2002-2008 Hui No’eau Art Affair contributing artist
2003 Art Maui, Shaffer Art Gallery
2005 Art Maui, Shaffer Art Gallery
2006 Art Maui, Shaffer Art Gallery
2006 Poster for Pier One opening Oahu
2007 The Peace Exhibit Makawao Maui
2008 Nicholart studio~ Makawao
2008 Album cover Jim Valley, Rainbow Dreams
2010 Spirit Of A Woman Book Cover
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