I was born in a small town in North Dakota, and I first started to paint, encouraged by my mom, when I was some 10 years old. For several years I was content to paint what I saw around me, expressing the joy of my day-to-day life experience.
My outlook on life changed when I left ND, lured by the attractions of Washington DC. During the next twenty years I reinvented myself (using my mother’s unmarried name) and found satisfaction, and influence, working behind the scenes as an Adviser to different White House administrations. At last I realized the emptiness of my ambition, and was determined to undergo a renewal.
I have now moved back to the state where I was born. Yet as an older, though surely not wiser, person, I recognise that I must approach artistic endeavour through a new gestalt. Consequently I am using non-traditional elements in my work, using them as a springboard to new methods of communication.
See the world through your own eyes – it’s not easy to do!
"What you see is what you get" - various items that just seemed to belong together
"Left behind" - a sidewalk in Bismarck, North Dakota.
