My visual concerns run the gamut from careful study to poetic, symbolic and sometimes political representations of nature and human nature. I am best known for watercolor paintings that address issues of identity, and humans’ relationship with the environment.These two themes cycle throughout my body of art for decades. My first love, in terms of art media, was drawing with ink from my imagination and reality. After exploring painting with oils and acrylics the luminosity of transparentwatercolor became my medium of choice for most of my professional art career. Only recently have I re-introduced mixed media and ink into some of my art processes.As an artist I have always worked on a continuum that both draws consciously on aesthetic, social, cultural and political subject matter based in realistic goals and subject matter as well as working to open pathways to my subconscious for more surreal imagery that can express so much more than simple re-representation.My earliest professional works were surrealist revisions, in which I imagined a creative reality for myself as a strong, working-class, rural-rooted woman artist, in opposition to what I had been taught to expect for myself by the larger culture. I would go on to explore such subjects as what we value as art and who we value as artists. Later my imagery would move decidedly toward both surrealistic and realistic representations of human relationships with nature that are aimed at reminding us we ARE nature, and that saving the environment is saving ourselves.In recent years I have set about re-exploring a parallel creative process that draws out imagery from my subconscious by returning to my love of drawing with ink into abstracted watercolor studies. In this works I embrace spontaneity much more than in my larger watercolor paintings. These ink and watercolor drawings are more concerned with unfiltered reactions to my experience of the moment and these difficult times in which we find ourselves. Most often the drawings become a collage of intuitive imagesintertwined with the representational forms resulting in dream-like impossibilities that are purely surreal, and yet they contain narratives that I and my audience can reflect upon.This process draws on my dreams, intuition, and spontaneous imagination. Welcome to my inner world.