Memories inhabit a space that is nowhere, creating visceral feelings and sensations offset by uncertainty and shadows. My paintings are based on places in England and Germany where I grew up in a bilingual home. I often use imagery that is drawn from family conversations, photographs, letters and anecdotes.

I use source photographs that are low resolution, pre-digital, black and white or sepia, often from the 1960s and 1970s. One photo can lead to several paintings with varying degrees of realism and color, evoking multiple feelings from a specific memory. Mostly using oils and some watercolor, I work with both monochrome and color. Using a muted palette acknowledges the uncertainty of memory, allowing me to adjust emotional mood with small changes in temperature. Using color, especially when highly saturated, provides access to the vividness of past feeling remembered in the present.