Artist Statement:

Form. Movement. Grace and elegance. I have always been fascinated with drawing and painting from life. Understanding the figure is both my greatest challenge and my artistic passion. The human body tells its own physical story, though an understanding of the individual is a bit more complex. Mysterious even. The two cannot be separated. Portraits that tell a story have captured my imagination since I viewed my first Mary Cassatt painting many years ago. A keen observer of 19^th century women’s lives. A suffragette.

A dancer’s body encompasses both strength and grace in equal measure. Controlled effortlessness. Beauty in motion. In this exhibit I am presenting a series of dancers in their quiet and reflective moments. Thoughts are to be interpreted by the viewer. Offstage. Backstage. Interpreting a thought-provoking human breath that the audience is not privy to. Blank faces are deliberate by design. Emotive sans the details. The significance of what one might see as an oversight is in fact a statement of the societal treatment of women. Past and present. Local and global.  Women’s voices are still not heard. Equality remains elusive.