For Warren, painting is a dialogue that goes on between the painter and the canvas. Sharing an intimate relationship with each of her pieces, she paints what the painting tells her to paint. For her, the process of painting (what she keeps finding out about the picture as she executes it) is more important than what happens to the painting after it is finished. She waits for something to occur, and she does not stop painting until she feels that the picture has become what it was meant to become from the beginning.

In her paintings, she is more inspired by the present than the past. Participating in From Grandmother’s Brush (organized in conjunction with the Orlando Museum of Art’s presentation of the traveling exhibition, Grandma Moses in the 21st Century) has special significance to her because her mother, who used to draw, praised Moses’ paintings and always wished to have one.

[artist biography by Ximena Cisneros; artist photograph by Casey Fletcher]