“Color, gesture, texture, relationships, endlessly interest me. I watch the materials do what they do and get them to speak. Like the fossil that speaks for the animal that happened by in that moment thousands of years ago, I take a print of a gesture, or mark, and record it, not as an image but as an impression, captured in color on cloth that touches the senses. I use dyes rather than paints and choose light -weight silk, cotton, rayon, and linen instead of heavy canvas. I am currently focusing on a mono-printing and painting technique. Mono- printing is a way to achieve textural effects not possible by other means, in combination with the painting that can be spontaneous, gestural and unexpected.”