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I am a mixed-media artist with a graphic design background. I paint in acrylics on heavy multi-media artboards or wood panels. Pencils, crayons or sharpies scratched into wet paint and geometric or handmade stencils are used extensively in my work to help create visual rhythms, strengthen the composition or to focus the eye on a certain area of the painting. I pay close attention to the power of differences. (small shapes beside larger shapes; the play of dark alongside light; scrubbed or sketchy areas juxtaposed against flat, solid areas of color). The act of layering is an integral part of my process often revealing shapes that I should accentuate or directing me to simplify or combine areas. But it is by imposing limitations--the size of the canvas I will work on or the number of colors I will use, the size of my brush, or whether to use pencils, or crayons to be my greatest teacher and ironically the provider of a never-ending source of possibilities.