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Other Q What would be the ideal place in which to exhibit your work? Where do you see your art displayed? A Unlike a movie or a book, experienced over time and then out of sight, my paintings are meant to be looked at repeatedly, in different moods, at different times of day, alone and with people, slowly or quickly, but always multiple times. The best place to see one of my pictures is on your wall at home. The next best is anywhere you might spend time on a regular basis in public, especially where you have to wait and need something interesting to occupy or distract you. Q What have you learned about yourself and your work over the years? If you could go back and tell your younger self something to help her with her art back then, what would it be? A I would tell her to do everything exactly the same, except start paying off her student loans right away, and save 10% of all income. That way she could have a lot more time for painting and not so many money worries. Of course, my younger self, being who she was, would not have listened. Q Do you work within a particular painting tradition, or feel your work is entirely original? How can artists be sure their work is original? A Everything has been done before. But, since I'm the only me, everything I do is original to me and my perspective, even if it's been done before by someone else. I do what I do in a particular time and place, it is entirely of that time and no other. Q How easy/hard is it to sell paintings these days? Is it easy/hard to market over the internet? A Selling paintings is very difficult, that's why I am also a graphic designer & tattooist. A girl's gotta eat. The internet is a great place for showing lots of people all over the world what I do, but not a great place for selling, so far, for me. Q The majority of your work features plants or flowers of one kind or another. What do they represent to you and do you differentiate in meaning between potted plants and flowers? A I never noticed till this question. You're totally right, I do put plants in my pictures a lot. I've always lived in big cities and have never lived in a house with a garden. I love plants but the only ones I've lived with are in pots. When I paint a potted plant it's drawn from life, the wild ones growing in the ground are all fantasies from my imagination. Q Why do you make figurative art as opposed to abstract art, what does the figure mean to you or enable you to do? A I've never had much feeling for abstract art. Using the human figure and painting things to look somewhat like they do in real life feels right to me. I relate to representational art and identify with the people depicted. Q Do you ever want to tattoo one of your favorite paintings you did on yourself? A I do and I did. Q What are your ambitions? A To become fluent in a dozen languages, travel the world, influence heads of state to make world peace, to floss regularly. To one day play the ukulele in public without embarrassing myself. Autobiography | Dreams | Surrealism | Symbols | Process |
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