“I give myself the freedom not to have to be excellent at everything, and this allows me to find joy in dabbling, playing. I challenge myself to take the artistic risk, try a new method, experiment.”

“It’s good to remember that watercolor is like a teenager — it has a mind of its own. We get in trouble when painting watercolor if we try to control it. Get in and get out. Enjoy the paint.”

“As artists, it is our job to show the viewer how we see the world. My goal with my still life paintings is to take utilitarian objects and give them their moment.”

“Art to me is the closest thing we have to a bridge between our inner private world and the outer world we share.”

“Following in my father’s footsteps, I am basically always working… but as he taught me, when it is work you love, you don’t get tired of doing it.”

“I love drawing for its simplicity, its practicality, and its expressiveness. Drawing lends itself to storytelling.”

“Looking back, I can see how those experiences—building worlds with my hands, paying attention to nature, and learning collaboration through music—have shaped how I work as an artist today.”

“When I get overstimulated in life, being a parent, doing the must-dos and so on, making art is a meditation. I can shut off everything except what drives my mark-making, color choices and focus on the tactility of hand to paper or canvas.”

“I was a perfectionist and preferred to be in total control. However, pottery transformed my perspective, shifting my focus from the outcome to the process itself.”

“I’m usually so focused on the technical aspects of a painting I tend to let the meaning of the work be whatever it’s going to be. If it has meaning in the conventional sense that can be put into words, so much the better.”