I enjoy sketching and the process of taking a drawing and transforming it into a painting, a woodcut, and a beaded piece.  Watching the piece evolve as it changes formats is often a learning experience as it forces me to re-examine the image and gradually understand its significance.  Through line and color I discover long-forgotten memories from my childhood or come to recognize aspects of my current psychological state.  In many ways it is similar to determining the meaning of a dream.  What does this line, this image say about me?  About my relationships?  About my present or my future?

It is only after recognizing such information that I can begin to understand myself and my relationships with others.  It is through this emotional and thoughtful process that epiphanies can emerge, and common threads become clear.  The issues and events depicted in my work are fundamentally human: love and hate, joy and sorrow, grief and healing.  Thus it is my hope that the works are not as subjective as they at first seem, but that each viewer will recognize something of themselves and our shared human experiences within them. 

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Allen Coleman Melissa Earley Darlene Fuhst JJ Ohlinger Deborah Pagano Alexia Timberlake