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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I am a seventh generation Texan with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin.
Living in Texas all my life, I have grown to love the transforming beauty of the sun. Bright sunshine on simple objects is what inspires me to paint. When I notice the yellow-white summer sun cooking highways, steel structures or sand, I imagine it as a painting. I notice the wintry sun, too. It has a cool brightness which cuts razor sharp shadows on smooth concrete.
I am not drawn to the prettiness of a place or to the story behind it, but to the way it is transformed by light. I do not choose highway overpasses as subjects because they are primary symbols of modern civilization, not consciously at least, but because their form changes at different times of day in different light.