Good ol gals

Kathe Kollwitz

Dorthea Lang

Frida Kalo

These ladies sure knew what they were doing. A painter, photographer and print maker...all 2-D, but how I would like to sculpt. Gestural, intuitive, emotional. Capturing the beauty in the pain of life. Feminine, strong and resilient. Wise and vulnerable and therefor powerful.

oldies but goodies

Dali

Picasso

Matisse


Dali, Picasso, Matisse. These guys have all been at it for awhile. They made their mark long ago and thus have saturated our culture with their images. These paintings are all inside or me. Working intuitively the history of their marks flow through my hand.

2-D to 3-D aesthetic

Pati Warashina

Akio Takamori

Betty Woodman

This group of Ceramic artists inspire me for their ability to speak to a painterly/drawing like 2-D aesthetic within their 3-D Ceramic sculptural work. Expressive, colorful, strong line quality...Asian influence or inspiration. These artists all have captured a freshness that also has a sense of control and believability. Their work is narrative but also abstract and dreamlike. It resonates on an emotional level. Why is it not in 2-D? Why do these need to be clay? How does it being clay strengthen all of these aspects of the work? Thats what I am asking myself....