Portfolio - Emergence

These small oil with collage paintings emerged out of a need to try a different path with my work. Painter Dana James encouraged me to try collage,

and I found that it has met a number of needs — a great way to add areas of thick, dried paint from other works to make another work more than it was.

Also, somehow it moved my process more into an area of “play” that seemed to have been missing although I didn't realize it until the “play” began.