Come Sit

“I have been making art for as long as I can remember.” After a career in graphic art, Spiker returned to school to study painting. She found inspiration in San Francisco Bay’s figurative artists of the 1950s-60s, especially the art of Milton Avery. “I have had many physical setbacks since being paralyzed in 1998, but I am full of gratitude that I still have my hands and the energy and drive to paint.” Her medium of choice is oil on paper. “I paint the figure, occasionally within a broad environment but usually within a minimal space. Attitude, color, pattern and a sense of place play big roles in my painting decisions.”