About Me:
My work currently centers around oil paintings in which I collage different images together in such a way that they appear to grow from one another, creating an effect of movement. I am extremely meticulous and the paintings I execute are highly detailed. I think of my paintings as spreading like a bruise across a canvas, with one image morphing out of another. I am inspired by the bright colors and clean lines of Pop Art, as well as the Surrealist Movement, but prefer not to classify my own style in terms of an association with others’ work. Thematically, I am exploring the pain I’ve had to undergo as a survivor of domestic abuse, and my own search for identity in the aftermath of eighteen years of allowing others to define who I was supposed to be.
Since arriving in Ventura nine months
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