Here we have the inexplicable situation of a young girl living in Los Angeles and producing, from a very early age, a large body of small but beautiful primitive paintings. Engrossed in fairy-tale like fantasies, flowers, lovers, birds and dragons; but possessed of insights of which she is not consciously aware, she makes controlled and compelling paintings which go far beyond the decorative. Her portraits are direct and open, honest to the point of hurt ing by truth.

––Barbara Smith