““...and morning drew softly” is a series of oil paintings that express the way night becomes day both in the emotional as well as the physical sense. They were painted to reflect the emergence of light in my own life and to express its pure physical beauty. The paintings, for me, emit energy from within as I allow immense space to express itself through detail.

The palette I use is limited to a few colors that depict the changing light as my body awakens. I move my brush across the canvas with a tenderness that echoes the softness of the morning light. Gradations of tones, subtle and barely perceptible, convey the slow gentle movement of light as an expansive sky gradually illuminates my body. Feeling the changing light in the early morning hours on my skin has been my prayer ritual as I greet each new day. The expansive peace, spreading across time and place at that hour, covers me with its subtle warmth, and ideas form themselves into a clear dream. The world ‘draws’ itself into existence touching, through light, the very fibers of my being.”