Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking
December Show at Archway Gallery
Since the beginning of 2025, I have felt as if I am in a dream. It often feels more like a chaotic nightmare, while I am walking through it - sleepwalking. When I was a child and life was stressful, I would fall into an imaginary world seeing animals living in small villages, deep in the forest. I would draw upon these ideas for hours. I mention this because I feel this need, as an adult, to create paintings from my imagination rather than using photos to express what I see. Working this way has felt vulnerable, and oddly comforting in the same moment. The familiar safeness I felt while drawing as a child is coming alive in this process, helping me to see and feel the magic. We tend to forget that there is magic here, especially with so much troubling news coming at us at every moment.
Part of this new direction in my work was my interest in the use of Tarot cards, which fascinated me as I digested the meanings of each card, the characters with their stories, metaphors, archetypes and symbols. Learning Tarot has taught me to see more clearly the signs and messages that happen all around us, giving deeper meaning to my paintings in this body of work.
December Show at Archway Gallery
Since the beginning of 2025, I have felt as if I am in a dream. It often feels more like a chaotic nightmare, while I am walking through it - sleepwalking. When I was a child and life was stressful, I would fall into an imaginary world seeing animals living in small villages, deep in the forest. I would draw upon these ideas for hours. I mention this because I feel this need, as an adult, to create paintings from my imagination rather than using photos to express what I see. Working this way has felt vulnerable, and oddly comforting in the same moment. The familiar safeness I felt while drawing as a child is coming alive in this process, helping me to see and feel the magic. We tend to forget that there is magic here, especially with so much troubling news coming at us at every moment.
Part of this new direction in my work was my interest in the use of Tarot cards, which fascinated me as I digested the meanings of each card, the characters with their stories, metaphors, archetypes and symbols. Learning Tarot has taught me to see more clearly the signs and messages that happen all around us, giving deeper meaning to my paintings in this body of work.