My art is about faith and hope. I know creation of a work of art often comes from unforgettable moments-- dormant in my heart. I am approaching a personal kind of abstraction from my own perspective. I do want the viewer to feel like everytime he or she looks at one of my paintings, they are each different and unique. I want the painting to not be what they first thought. I want someone to feel a bit overwhelmed; like this painting one see, has never been seen before.

In all my artworks, I do not exactly imitate or represent the actual world around us. I do believe that my art has the power to take on real meaning and deliver it into people's lives. While my content describes an inner world and inner, life, there is always an emphasis on content, commitment, and quality. Each piece has to mean something. Every mark I make I see as an affirmative act. It is a challenge to keep thinking sharply and to be on the edge where ideas are moving, challenging you, and giving you a kind of awe.

One of my greatest strengths is that there is always a sense of adventure to be seen. My art is my way of asking questions. I don't look for absolute answers. I do believe that life has to push you to a level to see a deeper truth-a simplicity-an attempt to reach some kind of purity. Everyone's life is fragmented with different variables. We're born with only our environment and free will and choice. I just want to make art that is very rich. Like life, I try to leave my viewers with supercharged images-sometimes tranquil, joyous, and sometimes depressed.

I have to paint about things that are important to me. I have never lost sight of why I became an artist. In some ways I have paid dearly for this life decision. I take risks everyday. Since the very beginning, I have never had any other choice. I want to live in the present. I can't change my past. I hope my paintings have the kind of magic I am looking for all the time.

From 2010 to 2011 I have created a new and unusual work of art. It is called "You May Ask Me Why." From a book I have written, I am using some words to communicate what one can learn from life.

This project was inspired by a letter received after 40 years of marriage. From the very beginning, she knew his arrival into her life seemed to be a gift from God. She believed that he was the finest person she knew. In part the letter read:

He has left her
He would have liked things to be different
His last chilling heartless words to her were  "…MY BEST TO YOU."

The project consists of:

10 New paintings using different sections of my book
This book was created for the project
11 outdoor cement sculptures combining shape and text
15 multicolored vibrant handmade fiber art pieces created as a background for small pieces of white linen printed with different aspects of these words
12 pieces of 10"x10" plexiglass combining handblown glass, paing, and words in the layout of a book

This thoughtful and often beautiful project will reach the heart of many. I hope it will help them understand their prsent life and choices. Careless acts have life-changing moral implications. This personal upheaval was consequential for my life.

You May Ask Me Why is intended to answer one question:

"Why the heart cannot go home."

Inspired by a series of paintings done by Turn of the Century artist Paul Cezanne in the late 1800's, this project is collection of eleven 5-foot sculptures consisting primarliy of partially hewn tree wood. Steel and contemporary hardware are components wiith wood stain accents, painted faces and layered wax finishes t protect the natural coloring of the wood.

There are 5 male and 6 female sculptures in the collection. Each sculpture is uniquely individual, and yet is clearly balanced as part of the entire collection. Each sculpture has a different gesture and even as each figure seems a bit awkward, one can see a feeling of sexual temptation from one piece to the next.

This collection exists somewhere between Cezanne's mysteries and the spirit of the materials used. There is created a spiritual discourse between culture, place, time and nature.

A new series has been started called My Totems. A Totem exists somewhere between a higher spirit and some kind of ritual object. I am talking from nature. Nature makes the tree grow, the tree falls over, and then it is Hilary's joy to give it a new life. At times in the process, she feels like something of a mystic who looks deep into god's tree. She wants to release something that was already there in a new way. Some of the wood pieces are found from the natural garden work of tree cutting.

Each of these totems radiates a bit of the mystery of the deep woods from which they originate. She wants the viewer to fill in the apparents voices. Hilary has learned to alter and re-shape hunks of wood in new surprising ways. She uses the variation of the wood's grain and natural cracks to express each piece individually; I have created a craggy primitivist look. She believes that she is collaborating with nature while using these spare wood forms. New techniques often mixes keeping the chisel marks on the exterior of the wood. Sometime what looks like stripes are deep oblique, saw-cut grooves. All the individual pieces retain enough of the raw wildness of nature to give them a strangely animate quality.

Looking at the premier piece, a 10' sculpture titled Adonis' Horse, Hilary states "I have coaxed an elemental grace and strength and while using abstract shapes. There is a very strong and inate intelligence in this finished pieces. I am led to those forms I use by the wood itself." Adonis' Horse is a collaboration or joining of art with nature.

Is a raw beauty -- Each totem piece has a vital energetic life force. Line is an essential element. Each piece is an independent entity . As we look at these sculptures we see light create illumination and shadows which filter over each piece. There is a raw beauty - these for the artist, they are breathing living things. Each basic sculptural form owes an enoromous debt and graditude to nature and god.