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Drawings

The following images are from a past traveling exhibition partly funded by The Regional Artist Project Support program which is administered and funded by the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County with support from the NC Arts Council and the counties of Lee, Moore, Richmond, Robertson and Scotland Counties, the City of Fayetteville, Cumberland County, and private contributions.

I have spent my life studying, teaching, and making art. What inspires me to pick up a pencil, brush, or linocut tool and make marks on paper or canvas is the same now as it was when I was young: color, pattern, and flattened space. For me, color needs to be as intense and bright as I can make it. I want my colors to be exciting, like opening a new box of crayons on the first day of school. I like the way pattern creates movement in a drawing and activates the surface by breaking large shapes into smaller colored spots. My work is flat and decorative. Although I draw from life, I make a conscious effort to flatten space by tilting and altering perspective. I try to create the feeling that the objects are stacked, one on top of the other, vertically, rather than one behind the other, horizontally.