I create paintings of women, the sea, mysterious encounters, and uncommon places. These works occupy a mythic place in our consciousness where timeless dramas are played out, questioning what we know about the world.
I love color. My imagery is dense, richly pigmented and powerful. Settings are composites of remembered places from my childhood growing up on the New England coast, my home in the hills of western Massachusetts, and my extensive travels.
By piecing together landscapes, seascapes, people, architecture, and curious details that have never existed together in reality, I am able to construct a compelling and complex narrative. In my larger pieces, the viewpoint is just outside the picture plane – one more step and you feel as if you can walk right into the painting. Birds, and the powers and mythology associated with them, have long been choreographed into my work, as companions or avatars of change, growth, or freedom.
My paintings, while following my own distinctive vision, fall well within the realm of contemporary realism. I have always drawn and painted the figure. My work is organized around the geometry of patterns and the painterly flow of skies. I create a realm where women are on the cusp of change and in sync with the natural world, a place where the spirit resides.
Enigmatic, evocative, and surreal, all of my work asks the question: “What is real?”
Many years ago, my husband and I purchased your exquisite pastel, "Swimmers in the River." This work of art has moved houses with us numerous times since then, always gracing our most important walls, never failing to inspire with its stunning beauty and fathomless mystery. We've felt such profound spiritual and aesthetic connection to the work, and thank you so much for the gift you've given to the lives of two admiring strangers. We are artists, my husband a classical violinist and violist, and I a poet and fiction writer, so not big earners by any means! But we had to have "Swimmers in the River," knowing that it would speak to us every day, every time we encountered its dazzling pull.
I have a poetry chapbook coming out. As I stopped to admire "Swimmers in the River" yesterday, I knew instantly that no art could be more perfect for my chapbook cover than something of yours. Excitedly, I set about looking through your portfolio and earmarked several works that resonated with my book "On the Lip of Night." I'm writing to ask whether you might consider allowing me to feature one of these on my book cover. My number one choice is "Earth." The contrasting colors of the earth blanket evoke the tension between light and darkness, suggesting the precipice, the very suspense contained in my title. The woman lying there feels like my narrator. We dream our way into her face, her posture, the very meaning of her being there. She is the perfect harbinger for what lies between the covers.
- Julie Esther Fisher, Author
View the exhibit "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief" with narration by artist Linda H. Post at R. Michelson Galleries
On February 22, the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus spacecraft successfully landed on the moon’s southern hemisphere.
On board the Odysseus is the Lunar Codex, a time capsule that contains the work of contemporary artists, writers, and musicians.
My work is among them.
