Art surrounds me in everything I do. From running a business, to raising children, to designing the space in which I live and work, these for me are all intensely creative acts.

I feel fortunate to have found my home in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. Living so closely to the natural world is my inspiration and keeps me in a state of appreciation.

While doing art has always been a part of my life, I began working with bronze in 1994. I had always been drawn to bronze sculpture and its ability to hold such fluidity suspended in space, that when I began to do it, it felt like “coming home”. It is a labor of love, and requires a lot of process, but the finished piece always holds so many facets of meaning by the time it is done.

My pieces of art don’t always start with a story but they always end with one, as if the story was there all along. Expressing myself through art gives me the opportunity to explore and understand my relationship to the world. Whether it’s through a political statement, or a celebration of nature and the human form, or the beginning of life and the creation of the universe, my art gives me an outlet to deepen who I am.

Whether it is light or dark, heaven and earth, love and hate, good and bad, it is this polarity  of opposites that is our greatest teacher. We seek to reject it, fear it, but through embracing it we are released to a greater understanding of ourselves and the choices we make that create who we are as individuals. This becomes our path and we are blessed with all of these lessons.

Find your own “familiar” or new thought or emotion. Chances are it has been there all along, waiting for you to touch and explore it.

September 29, 2010