roots2re
roots2re
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| Member | Jun 12, 2012 (14 years) |
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Bio
I was trained as a Printmaker at Greenfield Community College and Hartford Art School and have since become a painter.
In these last 25 years of making art, I have moved away from a gallery focus and toward making and showing art for Communities and Community spaces. I have come to believe in the importance of Art that is made to be shared in the places we live, on the streets we walk, and in our everyday lives. In these many years I have learned that all of my experiences, loves, nightmares, adventures, quandaries and questions are exquisite fuel for my work. Living fully and bringing that full life to my Art is the nature of my process. Over the years I have formed a deep connection and love of the natural world; the woods, mountains, creatures and dirt. The recognition of this symbiotic relationship between the human and non human planet and its profound importance has become a central theme in my work.
In recent years, I have begun to focus on the interweaving of social justice and these connections and disconnections to our natural world. In my Art I am using these ties and bonds to nature and creatures as a support to lift up those involved in the struggles for social justice. As bugs, bats, vines, eggs, seeds, fish, owls, trees and bones mix and intertwine in my work, they connect us to the planet and to each other, they loop into lungs and out of mouths and they tie everything together.
My Art is the lens through which I am trying to understand this world and I hope the work I create can offer others the possibility of exploration into their own connections and relationships with the earth, their activism, and our global community
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