I have come home to my paints and brushes after many years spent with dirty hands, smudging and scumbling and rubbing chalk pastels. Color, light, shadow, mood, atmosphere, space, and yet more color all help direct me as I begin to create.

In “A Thousand Forests”, my solo show at the Spectrum Gallery in Washington, DC, the paintings are a reflection of imagery in my life, some real and some imagined. As I pass through the various stages of life, there is a moment for reflection, a grey space, which is located just after closing one door but before opening the next. My paintings are presented for you in hopes that you will linger a bit and savor the grey space a while longer.