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Artist Statement

I make art because it is fun to do, it's an exploration, like a good backpacking trip and because of finally discovering that art is useful, it is what makes a house a home, or the world human. Because I am fond of drawing living beings, my work is figurative. Yet I love the relationships of elegant beautiful colors and rounded simplified form.  So I mix this all together, realism, with a touch of abstraction. My sculptures and paintings generally arise from my sketchbook and the swift drawings  that appear as I observe this captivating world.  Some leap up from my imagination, or they may develop from an image that I see in the freshly prepared surface of the canvas. They emerge,  and comment on life, like short stories, or poems, the images talk about beings with heart and soul. Sculpture is like painting in the round, and painting is carving in two dimensions.  It would be a tough choice for me to decide to do one or the other.  I am devoted to searching for just the right line and just the right angle to convey the message of the form, no matter what the surface is. The feel of the brush pulling the paint across the canvas, or a knife carving wax or clay is as delightful as the beautiful colors that come together on my palette. The ability to move around a sculpture in order to see all of its facets, to shape and carve them until the form is right, intrigues me.  The work is finished, sculpture or painting, when can I step back, satisfied that every aspect makes me smile, then it is yours.            (mag.i.cal : beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life)

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