April 7, 2012 Gallery night. Featuring artist at High Street Gallery, 33 High Street, Mineral Point, WI

Sep 1 - 2, 2012 , 2012 Third Ward Art Festival, Milwaukee, WI

May 26 - 27, 2012 Barrington Art Festival, Barrington, Illinois

Jun 1 - 3, 2012 Eastside Millennium Art Festival, Chicago, Illinois

Jan, 9 -Feb.4, 2012 Solo art exhibit at E5/2 Main Entrance Gallery at the UW Hospital, 600 Highland Ave Madison, WI

Jan. 7 -Feb. 7, 2012 I will be participating in Madison Art Guild Winter Showcase at Sky Lounge Gallery (surgical waiting room), UW Hospital, Madison, WI.

December 3, 2011 gallery night
Featuring artist at High Street Gallery,
33 High Street, Mineral Point, WI

Jan. 7 - Feb. 4, 2012 University Hospital & Clinics, Surgical Waiting Room/Skylight Lounge, WI

November 12 and 13, 2011
The Winter Art Festival,
Monona Terrace, Madison, WI

Whimsical art works

My paintings are funny and whimsical.
The characters in these paintings are animals with human-like emotions (joy, sadness) who are often involved in human-like activities (kissing, hugging, dancing, playing...).
They are all very kind and gracious, and I hope that the stories of their adventures will bring a smile to people's face.

I work in acrylic on stretched canvas and in watercolor on heavy watercolor paper.

Contemporary art works

I work in acrylic and oil on canvas and use wooden, metal and fabric pieces to add texture to my work. Most of my paintings are in contemporary and abstract style.

One example of my works in contemporary style is a series of botanical paintings, in a particular paintings of poppies and sunflowers. Poppies inspire me with their delicate stems and elegant soft petals that look so vulnerable and insecure. I try to emphasize their frailness by placing them on various background colors and shades that evoke a feeling of anticipation and uncertainty and blur the boundary between the reality and the unknown. By poising the elegant and fragile flowers on a mystifying background I use the contrast to represent the diversity of life. One part of me is always searching for new knowledge and a deeper understanding of the meaning and essence of life. In my paintings, poppies symbolize this fragility of a human soul in its quest to perceive the infiniteness of the unknown and the uncertain around us.

I am currently a member of Wisconsin Regional Arts Association (WRAA), Madison Art Guild (MAG), Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA, Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors), Wisconsin Alliance of Artists and Craftspeople ( WAAC ). One of my paintings received a State Exhibit Award, and several paintings got an Honorable Mention through the Wisconsin Regional Art Program.

I have also been actively participating in art shows and fairs throughout Wisconsin and neighobring states, including Stone Arch Festival of the Arts in Minneapolis, East Side Millenium Park and Gold Coast Art Fairs in Chicago, Promenade of the Arts in Arlington Heights, IL, North Shore Festival of Art in Skokie, IL, Lincolnshire Art Festival in Lincolnshire, IL, City of Baraboo Art Fair, Mount Horeb Art Fair, and Madison Audubon Art Fair.