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My artwork is created digitally with the Photoshop software package. I use polygons of color as my “brushstrokes”; if you look closely you’ll see that each one is what I like to call an “organic triangle”, that is, a simple triangle stretched and distorted. But I don’t believe I paint with these brushstrokes per se; I paint with the white space, using the color to define, delineate, and shape the white of the paper into the image. I paint the shadows and curves, thereby painting the subject herself. I love the clean lines and stark difference between the color and the paper; the way these solid shapes and blank areas are used to create the curvy, organic form of my subjects. There is both precision and vagueness, a solid picture created out of indistinct forms. My subjects are female nudes. Why? The artist Jean Varda was fond of saying there were three perfect shapes in the world .... the hull of a boat, a violin and a woman's body. I agree, and I paint the shape I know and love the best...
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