I love exploring symbols. I began thinking about symbols when teaching elementary education, along with being a new mom. Seeing my child and my students relying on the very same symbols I remember using as a child was exciting to me. Happy houses… suns in the corner. They started finding their way into my art. See my website Gallery, where …
Symbols have been borrowed and exchanged forever. I am drawn to the petroglyphs and symbol studies I have been painting, by that very thing: how symbols are a visual language, which seemingly jumps across time and continents. Many of the same type of imagery in yesterday’s petroglyphs is found the world over. Those same images are prevalent in society today. …