Statement of the Artist       

I am working on a series of drawings and paintings which is concerned with making a statement about the isolation and alienation of the elderly as seen especially in old women.  This is not a series of traditional portraits; I do not work from models or from photographs.  I make no  attempt to create likenesses or specific people.  My approach is both conceptual and political, and it is unsentimental.   My art is an attempt to document what I see as the pain of these women in being part of,  yet outside of the mainstream "society" and to describe the very real dignity and power which is retained by these individuals while growing old in a hostile environment.