Blue Series

The Blue Series was conceived and completed at a time when it seemed that everything around me was “children” – their stuff, their mess, their toys… The only way I could positively use that feeling of being overwhelmed was to put it down on canvas. 

I paint directly from reality: my reality. The objects which define my present, en route to becoming my past. I do not paint still-lifes: I paint monuments; I paint self-portraits; I paint absence, the presence of absence; I paint wrinkles, aging; I paint memories-in-the-making. 

I work from my life, the mess of my life, the mess of my children. Objects like my sinks, disconnected, disordered; the rocker I nursed on; messy tables; strollers going nowhere. In a creased wrinkled world, where clothes cannot possibly be ironed, everything blends, becomes a blur, suffused with a sameness in color, texture, and feeling. Layers of time and melancholy, like layers of paint, settle over the objects of my life.