I tend to express my emotions with vibrant colors and through various muses, like fruit or pigeons. I often use or incorporate up-cycled items.  I soak up plenty walking through the streets of this city! In my art studio I work free spirited, wandering and exploring new mediums.  I play with little pockets of our world, you'll see.  Ciao! Jeremie

Never really knowing what the painting will look like, I approach the canvas spontaneously, looking to express the flood of stories in my head. I start by making marks of color upon color and line and try to follow along as the work evolves almost on it’s own.

I often feel like a writer in my process of finding the narrative and like to think of each painting as a song or a short story.  I “write” or paint using a visual vocabulary of everyday objects such as tables, chairs, beds, houses, fire, water and animals.

By communicating through these universal symbols and keeping the narrative open, I am inviting you to connect to your own experience.

I am often reluctant to tell my personal story of what inspired the work, as it is just that –inspiration.  I am more interested in the story it evokes.

Intentionally childlike, with bold bright colors, simplicity of form, imagination and directness I seek to capture the innocence and immediacy of the heart and move the viewer to relate intimately.

My art is about reinterpreting my urban experience. I am inspired by the city’s diversity, and the juxtaposition of engineered and natural forms. My artistic process is a combination of photography, printmaking, drawing and painting. I snap photos while walking in a neighborhood, then overlay the images in search of visual connections. Through a series of hand-made marks and color choices, I transform the objective photographic images into a more personal sense of place.

I began painting in 1996. My background is in fashion and costume design, theatre, dance and interior design. I have taken extension classes in painting at the San Francisco Art Institue and City College of San Francisco, but I am primarily self-taught. Most of my work has been imaginary landscapes. These are informed by my childhood in Michigan, travels in the West, summers in Maine and more than thirty years living in Northern California. Since each piece is an archetype and not a specific place the viewer is able to invest it with their own memories. I am also influenced by my materials, texture, found objects and images. I have painted on found and abandoned books and done a series of portraits based on found photographs. I love exploring the emotional resonance of color, or lack thereof.

I make oil paintings and drawings about family, identity, home and the passage of time. Using a formal vocabulary that is equally organic, gestural and graphic, I produce work that straddles the boundary between abstraction and representation.

The central theme in my work is personal and collective memory. My investigation into personal identity and the role of family in shaping identity includes examining family lineage: oral, written and imagined. I use specific references—family photographs and artifacts, maps, folk art, textiles, flora and landscape— to create paintings layered with marks and vivid colors. These source materials provide me with a departure point that I translate into line, pattern, form and color. For example, hand-crocheted family heirlooms inspired the circular and net patterns that I use throughout my work.

The layered marks in my work symbolize the way memories build up internally and become a part of one’s character, creating a complex system of stories and narrative.  The blooming floral form is a recurring motif in my work; it is a form that allows me to investigate progression, growth and the passing of time.

For me, painting is an active process of thinking, feeling and discovery. I spend some days mostly looking, and consider it an equally important aspect of my practice. I work on several paintings at once, using a palette with a broad spectrum, allowing the momentum of color and mark making in one painting to feed the next.