My frescoes have to do with breakage and repair, scars and healing. They are created over an extended period of time, combining expressionism, the replicating of aging antique walls, pastoral scenes, and imagery from my husband’s military career in search and rescue. My approach to fresco stems from my work as a drywall taper. After spending years working to create only smooth surfaces on walls, I began exploring ‘mistakes’, the things I would not previously allow on the surface, to create a visual language to speak about hope, the textured surfaces allowing the viewer to sit and scan, while their mind processes and reflects.
In this piece, I have included a signal fire, an often-recurring symbol in my work of the desire to be found, or to let oneself be seen. The pink, surrounding the fire has to do with my family’s struggles with fighting and preventing breast cancer.