Artist Statement

Art in a variety of forms has always been my passion. I love paintings, poems, theater, jazz, singers, poet, actors and actress, photography, great movie pictures, sculpture, rhetoric, comedy, nature, etc..

My art, often whimsically, intentionally creates what I have missed in my art loving experience, me! For example, I was born into a world that never showed me a lovely black, fat angel, so I painted some. I am nurtured by and long to see things that look like me, especially my people (whom I love) and my ancestors. This is where it started.

I continue today to address the absence of images that I think are important to the stories of my life and culture. I create to preserve and share with others especially my grandchildren what life is for me presently and while growing up in the 50’s and 60’s. Many of these images celebrate the core values of my spirituality and codes of the communities of my origins which makes life meaningful for me.




(Photo: TALOB 2017 Exhibition, Richmond Art Center. 'Mama's Gaze: Spoken Words Not Need' 18x24 mixed media)