"My pictures are intensely colored abstract paintings executed in gouache on paper. These paintings, evocative of an imagined universe, explore the mystery of color, light and movement through time and space, both pictorial and invented.

"I've been painting abstractly since 1977, when I realized that what interested me most in my figurative work were the abstract issues of color, plane and pictorial space. Thus I embarked on a period of distilling my painting to its essentials, becoming completely disinterested in reproducing actual visual experience and fascinated with what is completely invented. Like the early abstract expressionists, I decided I wanted my work to be about the act of painting itself. And so I arrived at color field painting, which I've been addressing ever since.

"Partly inspired by the paintings of Mark Rothko, I worked for many years with rectilinear, architectural forms. More recently, however, I've wanted to do something that feels less manmade. I found an answer in the ovals of Brancusi, which have not only feminized my work but moved it away from symmetry and structure and more toward activity and excitement. Ovals, diagonals, curves and circles are hard to keep still.

"Today, my abstract compositional elements still allude to the real and the concrete. But I don't want to make these allusions clear; I don't want to depict literal visual experience. My aim is to avoid the easy, the sentimental and the direct. I still want my paintings to be about painting."

Making art is almost my secret world. I am most myself when I am painting. I am incorporating my intellect, emotional life, esthetic judgement, energy, spirit, experience, skill, knowledge of art and the history of art, and my years of making art into my work. Yet I paint to create this singular world only when my family is taken care of and my practical labors are done; when I can put aside the outside world for a few hours at a time.

When I came of age as an artist in the early eighties, I thought I could make fine art my livelihood. I was wrong. I developed a career in design and became a wife and mother as well. I always made paintings because that is who I am. This series is a result of the themes I have been addressing since 1977. Having developed from color field painting, the shapes that appear in the colored planes of my paintings take on the roles of actors in a drama. The circles, squares, and ovals act. The shapes take on my emotional personas in the compositions. I diagram my life. I let the world in.