Artist’s Statement
Although I always knew that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, I took a circuitous way to finding myself as a painter after years of doing other things other than what I love: art & nature. Instead I studied Russian language and literature and ended up doing nothing related to my education and became a user experience designer. I now freelance and paint whenever I can. I came back to painting after taking studio classes at the Museum School at the MFA and various workshops with area artists such as Ellen Rolli, Ron Krouk, Karen O’Neill, Al Gury, Julie Beck, Zhanna Cantor, and Martha Wakefield. I gravitate towards nature- especially birds and the landscape. I tend to paint small in an “alla prima” or direct style where I react to the scene at hand and attempt to start and finish a painting in one session. My process includes photographing subjects, making collages of the images and then transforming them into paintings.
Memberships
- Hyde Park Arts Association/Menino Art Center, Studio Artist and Instructor
- Roslindale Open Studios, Participating Artist & Site Coordinator
- Dedham Art Association, Member Artist
- Duxbury Art Association, Member Artist
Exhibitions
- Mother Brook Art Center Open Studios – Invited Artist, Dedham, MA, 2024
- Dedham Art Association Member Show, Walpole, MA – Honorable Mention, 2024
- Roslindale Open Studios, Roslindale, MA, 2024
- 30th Annual Juried Exhibit, Zullo Gallery, Medfied,MA, 2024
- Art in The Park–Charlestown Artists Group Juried Show, Charlestown,MA, 2024
- Coolidge Corner Arts Festival Juried Entry, Brookline, MA, 2023
- Beacon Hill Art Walk Juried Show, Boston, MA, 2024
- Dedham Art Association Member Show, Walpole, MA – Honorable Mention, 2023
- Roslindale Open Studios, Roslindale, MA, 2023
- 29th Annual Juried Exhibit at Zullo Gallery, Medfield, M, 2023
- Art In The Park–Charlestown Artists Group Juried Show, Charlestown, MA, 2023
- Beacon Hill Art Walk Juried Show, Boston, MA, 2023
- Duxbury Art Association, Annual Member Show, Duxbury, MA, 2023
- Fay Chandler Emerging Artists Juried Show, Boston, MA, 2022
- Roslindale Open Studios, Roslindale, MA, 2022
- Coolidge Corner Arts Festival (juried entry), Brookline, MA, 2022
- Jamaica Plain Open Studios, JP, 2022
- Crafts in The Park (juried entry), Andover, MA, 2022
- 53rd Annual Pembroke Fine Arts Festival (juried entry), Pembroke, MA, 2nd Place Oil Painting, 2020
- “Wild Thing” International Juried Call for Art, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmouth, MA, 2020
- “Arts in Bloom” 15th Annual National Juried Show, Hopkinton Center for The Arts, Hopkinton, MA, 2020
- Roslindale Open Studios, Roslindale 2016 – 2019
- Crafts in The Park (juried entry), Andover, MA 2019
- Brookline Open Studios, Brookline, MA 2019
- Codman Estate Fine Arts Fair (juried entry), Lincoln, MA 2019, 2018, 2017
- 29th Annual Hyde Park Arts Association Members Juried Show, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA, 2020, 2019 (Second place Oil Painting), 2018
- Inspired by Nature, The Habitat at Mass Audubon, Belmont, MA 2018
- 23rd Annual Juried Show, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
- Beacon Hill Art Walk 28th Annual Juried Art Fair, Boston, MA 2017
- The Great Big Small Works Sale, Concord Center for Visual Arts, Concord, MA 2017
- “Flora and Fauna” Juried Show, Artist’s Corner and Gallery, West Acton, MA 2017
- 2nd Annual Juried Show, Milton Art Center, Milton, MA 2017
- Off The Wall: Small Works Juried Show, The Umbrella Community Arts Center, Concord, MA 2016
- Boston Arts Festival, Boston, MA 2016
- UForge Gallery, “Juror’s Choice”, Jamaica Plain, MA 2016
- Smithtown Township Arts Council, “Animals in Art” juried show, St. James, NY 2016
- Boston Nature Center, Mass Audubon, Boston, MA 2016, 2015
- Artist’s Corner & Gallery, Juried Show, West Acton, MA 2016
- Menino Arts Center, Studio Artists of the MAC, Hyde Park, MA 2015
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