Artist Bio
I really like to paint.
Throughout my life, painting has functioned as self-expression, experimentation, escapism, a way of learning, a means of reflection, an object of passion and a kind of play. It’s a kinesthetic mental interchange that results in total soul satisfaction. I realize that sounds dramatic and verges on gimmicky… but that’s what it is, that’s what pulls me back into the studio night after night. There aren’t many things in this world that you can say deeply satisfy the soul. Yet, painting defies the law of diminishing returns–it rescues me from the banality of the everyday and begs me to be better, no matter my progress. Csikszentmihalyi describes the artist’s high as a state of being “in flow,” a mental place of sustainable creative synapses firing fast and frequently, where interaction with what is evolving on the canvas makes perfect sense and the next move is successively and continually obvious. It is an unconscious takeover of rhythm and intuition. I am so happy in that place. It is flawed only by the reality that eventually it will be interrupted by something far less amusing and put on hold until later.
It seems to me that we are here for some higher purpose than to work 9-5 for someone else’s objective, or to waste what limited years we have entertaining ourselves. It seems to me that we are blessedly endowed with the amazing phenomenon of the imagination, that its potential is powerful and infinite, and that we could make massive headway in every aspect of life if we agreed that creativity is central to our identity and value as human beings and that it is the single most critical resource the world needs now and in the future. …But then again, I am just some girl who likes to paint.
Curriculum Vitae
| >2011 Ph.D. in Education | Brock University 2009 2005 2004 |
