I made these paintings 18 months ago after returning from a boat trip to Desolation Sound.   We went way up into some of the inlets, and the water and the land seemed pristine, more like how I imagined much of the Northwest when I was growing up here as a little girl. The waterfalls feeding the sound seemed to come from the purest sources on earth, which is why I have chosen these paintings to include in this show about rivers. 

  These oil paintings were done from memory  and from watercolor sketches that I made when I was in Desolation Sound, right after I returned.  In them I consider the negative space (the space between the forms) to be at least as important as the positive form. I feel that it is the negative space that holds the silence and the vibration of the lived experience of that place.