"There is no truth, but in transit."- said Ralph Waldo Emerson, a favorite author, transcendentalist, and one who taught me to take a higher view ...and then to share it widely. 

As a young woman attending art school, I awoke one morning and wrote myself a note, "Good Morning! ...You are a mural painter." And I have never been able to shake it. So transit, and paint.

 

Born in Warwick, RI, in the northeast U.S., I studied painting (and life) at Mass Art, in Boston,MA. I then spent some time on the west coast before landing back in Providence, RI, where I cultivated life as a decorative painter, community educator, mural instructor, and public art administrator for some 15 years. I have more recently spent most of the past 10 years in various parts of Jalisco and Nayarit, Mexico, painting murals and commissioned canvases, and teaching private art classes. As well as always studying hard at both ranchera life and el camino rojo, as the ways I live my subject.

Surely my art is vibrant, bright, colorful, sometimes fun. As it is also, most often, loaded with provocative concepts, and psychic and spiritual content. I recently realized I might be refered to as a 'visionary' artist, as many of my images come as just that... flash, image, downloads ...so I paint what I must. I paint messages, equations, conclusions of things not so easily put into words. I hope to carve conceptual pathways...to inspire the public psyche to feel beyond isolation. I believe that connection is the key to well-being. And this is why I paint, often large and in public.