Artist’s Statement

I have always felt the pull of both music and the visual arts, though the two interests developed along very different paths and timetables.  While my formal education provided the necessary training for my career as a professional musician, my studies in the visual arts were largely self-directed.  I pursued my own photography and art projects; took many art history courses, workshops and courses in fiber arts, bead making, weaving, drawing, painting, alternative photographic processes, and digital imaging; visited museums; and read voraciously.  In recent years, my activities as musician and visual artist began to merge, and an important milestone was a multi-media contemporary solo concert/art exhibit sponsored by Boston’s Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble in April 2002.  This event marked the first time the multiple aspects of my work were presented as an integrated whole.

As I continue working in both music and visual art, my artistic sensibility thrives working in a variety of media, just as I play more than one musical instrument and love performing music of different eras and genres.  Each medium enriches my experience with the others.  The discipline of creative process, learned from years of violin and viola lessons, concert preparations and performances, enhances time spent in the painting studio.  Form, rhythm, texture, and color apply to both musical performance and visual art.  Photographic composition informs my painting, and the tactile joy of working with paint affects what I see through the camera’s viewfinder.  Visual work expands the depth of my experience in music.  I love the interplay of the media and the sense of adventure and discovery as I move between them.  In the end, they all merge into one overall pursuit, as I seek to develop and give voice to my own personal vision.