I love the National Geographic documentaries filming Antarctic penguins swimming under the ice fishing for food. they are so graceful, quick, and beautiful . . . I would love to swim so gracefully with them in all that delicious blue and silvery magic.
Growing up in the desert region of Arizona, I learned the value of water as a precious life-giving resource and as a source of danger with the annual monsoons' flash floods. I love being in the water and am swimming, surfing, snorkeling whenever I can be. I am bonded with it spiritually . . . the movement of water and the changes that it brings about is a major inspiration in my artwork.
I am more than concerned about the state of water in the world, I am frightened by it. In the Southwest water is disappearing at an alarming rate, in the polar regions snowfall is decreasing and ice is melting. It isn't only that polar bears and penguins will be affected, it is the human population that is going to be affected in major ways as well. I want my work to move people to reflect on water and consider how it affects their lives physically and spiritually. People everywhere need to be talking about and taking heed that the water coming from their faucets can all too easily stop. And that the land they live on can be taken away with too much water. With my painting series, "Listening to the Voice of Water", I hope to start those conversations. Conversations that begin with how they feel as though they are in the water when they are viewing my paintings, can flow into many tangents leading to the health of water in the world.
- Subject Matter: Water Abstract
- Inventory Number: 22-101
- Collections: Listening to Water