From this discovery with paint, I quickly followed up with training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,and then at the University of Tulsa.  Painting archetypes- portraits of people, biblical characters, death, motherhood-- the emotions were what charged the work.   Throughout, I chose  not to paint photo realistically but rather use vivid colors as a way to represent the work.  Even though I spent 10 years copying paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of my training, I depend on my intuition to guide my work.  


    I describe my own style of painting as “IntuitiveExpressionism”.  Tracing the influences in my life that have formed this style, I think of first, the sense of being an “outsider”.  Growing up in an affluent suburb of Chicago, I saw my parents, immigrants from Europe (Czechoslovakia), misunderstood and sometimes ignored because of their accents. 

 

 My art reflects my experience in creating documentary films.  It led me to prefer a style of painting that conveys a sense of movement and action, rather than being static.  Also, I spent two years in Japan as a young college-age person, and I think that experience honed my skills of reducing things to their essence, as Japanese art does.


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 I discover that I could be a person who could create art serendipitously. On my first trip to Italy, while in my early thirties,  a close friend bought me paints and brushes. I drew in a way that expressed the feeling of the place.  Though I was employed as a documentary film-maker in Chicago, I had never thought of myself as an artist, and at that stage of my life, had had no training.

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