My Artist statement: After a 30 year career as a Nurse, my life has taken a new path, as an Artist. I continue to work as a nurse and I am lucky to find that happy balance between my art and my work as a nurse. My long career as a nurse, coupled with the death of my mother in my childhood has had a profound influence on me. Not only as growing up from a child to a woman, but also spiritually as pa
rt of my life journey. I believe things happen for a reason, and I feel strongly that I am meant to be an artist. I am an expressive artist and I use my art to portray my feelings and emotions. My Pen and Ink works are a form of Zen Meditation using the circle in a repetitive manner as a means of shading
and providing form and tone to the piece. My work is an expressive abstract form mainly figurative, but I am also exploring landscape. My figurative works are literal and abstract. They concern dissimulation, and how true feelings can be hidden behind a mask. The masks hide any form of identity. The masks enable the wearer to act more freely. I can relate the concept of the masks to everyday life, as everyone wears a mask of some description to hide their feelings and emotions. They wear a mask in a professional capacity or to interact with different people and family. My work has progressed within dissimulation and I have moved slightly away from the mask and use the female figurative form in an abstract way using pen and ink and the Zen meditation art, Zentangle art form, as well as exploring using oils as a medium. My work deals with the spirituality of both the artist and the subject, containing both a calming influence and emotive feeling through the atmospheric nature of the subject.
