Free Forest walks

I make small watercolors and large oil based paintings. Through a process of ‘free-association’ mark-making, I tap into something deeper within myself, that observes my awareness of reality, both experientially and through my understanding of Indian philosophy. My paintings engage with the dream-like interfaces between the conscious self and its subjective world, to convey the entropic multiplicity of reality.

I am fascinated by the over lapping of time –how the time ‘present’, however physically real, incorporates both time past and the time to come. This continuous processing of time through memory and imagination, which creates an inherent multiplicity of experience, is at the heart of my work.

Materials

My 2010-2020 paintings began to include a range of opaque mediums, such as casein, egg tempera, gouache, sumi-e ink, oil paint, acrylic paint  and collage, on various surfaces- hot press, rice and yupo and other papers, each offering distinct possibilities for developing the work, for covering up and rebuilding the surface.

COLOR

“Her use of color gives painting the quality of crystals, mineral layers of earth, water and air.”

“In her work one sees a palette of earth and sky and every thing in between intimately and closely related to our possible experience of color in the world. As the embodiment of a constant tension between above and below they are the mediation of light above all. Distilled light, filtered through air, leaves, skins, objects and bodies of all sorts, embracing the worlds of humanity, animals, plants, and stars, permeates her canvases”.

Yehuda Emmanuel Safran. ( In other rooms 2013).

Monochromatic paintings in Watercolor, Egg Tempera and Casein

Watercolor sketchbooks