I learned from my mother all about watercolors and oil paints; what to look for when purchasing materials and she  shared  the tricks that she had learned;  "paint what you see, not what you know". Her favorite was "a color is not a color until you place it next to another color". But at art school I was taught how to see differently.

My mother saw tree, rock, cloud…. I now saw form, shape ,space…She saw how to draw that tree…I learned that objects are ready to be distorted.


I look at landscapes, as paintings of magical places to visit. I love to elaborate on nature and turn the shadows and reflections of the objects in the landscapes into the main subject

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