From the start, she had a clear idea of what she hoped to understand better with her creative pursuit, and the first symbols that came to mind were trees, images of the various generations of family, and the sun passing overhead. While observing trees for this purpose, her attention began to be drawn to the play of light among the canopy of leaves. There was a shifting, shimmering quality to time that her static family images couldn’t quite relate. Gradually, her paintings shifted to totally abstract compositions of translucent shadows, with rays, spots and streaks of light. She regards this transformation as a way in which nature taught her how to better understand a difficult subject, while also fulfilling the goal of achieving an expression of beauty and connectedness to the world. </p>