Featured Series: Abstracts in Motion
In this series, I explore movement in a limited color scheme of red, yellow, and black, with gold and white acrylic pen details. The larger anchor piece is a nod to Hitchcock's "Vertigo", with a dizzying collage of spirals. The smaller companion pieces include various flora and fauna, all in a tumble of motion, as if a waft of wind has lifted them and sent them floating in different directions. Something like a memory that rattles around your brain in quiet moments. Peaceful or disturbing? It's all in how you see it for yourself. While the paintings themselves are full of motion, the titles are equally fun: Vertigo, A Flurry of Flowers, A Hazard of Hearts, A Tumble of Tulips, and A Flight of Fowl.
Random flowers float above a cream background with swipes of black, red, and orange. Flowers are outlined in white and gold with black centers, giving off a "Flower Power" vibe.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
A nod to Hitchcock, spirals appear on a black canvas with red, yellow and white background. What chaos in our lives causes us to spiral? How can we find our way out of the spiral?
24" x 36" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Tulips tumble in a chaotic torrent of red, yellow, and black. Tulips are outlined in white and gold with black centers. Imagine a warm breeze liftin tulips up to tumble through the air.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic and paint pens on canvas
A collection of hearts tumble haphazardly on a background of red, yellow and black. Hearts are outlined in white and gold and have black centers. Hearts aflutter on a wind of emotion.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic and paint pens on canvas
Random flowers float around the canvas in a flurry. Background is red, yellow, and black. Flowers are outlined in white and gold with black centers. It's as if a waft of wind has lifted them from their stems and sent them floating randomly, like a memory tumbling through the brain in quiet moments.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic and paint pens on canvas
Series: Flowers from My Childhood
Growing up in California’s San Benancio Valley, I developed an early appreciation for nature through long walks among fields of wild poppies and lupines. Being outdoors was my happy place; my safe place. These formative experiences inform the work in this series. Creating this series helped me get in touch with my inner child and heal some old wounds. Now they are reminder of how far I’ve come in my growth as a human in this sometimes volatile world.
One purple and two blue lupines on a darker purple background with swipes of blue behind them, hinting at other flowers in the background. Metallic silver paint highlights the flowers. Reminiscent of the wild Lupines near my childhood home in California.
12" x 16" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
A tangle of wild growth is home to purple foxgloves and pink lupines, yellow and white daisies, and pink puffballs. All the different sizes and shapes in our world can come together in beautiful patterns when we allow ourselves to see them.
30" x 30" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
The canvas is covered in a blanket of yellow daisies with big brown centers. Iridescent highlights around the daisies make them pop in low light. When hung diagonally, the daisies appear to be tumbling off the canvas.
24" x 24" x 1.5" The actual footprint of the piece when hung diagonally is 34" x 34".
Acrylic, metallics on canvas
Painting is wired for both diagonal and horizontal hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
The sun is setting beyond the hill where an old oak tree sits, surrounded by yellow flowers. It reminds me of the massive oak trees on our property in California when I was a child. I would spend hours outside among the trees and enjoying the flowers that grew wild beyond the canopy.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
A tangle of wild growth is home to purple and pink lupines, orange, yellow and white flowers of varying sizes, and pink puffballs.
18" x 24" x .5"
Acrylic, paint marker on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
A field of wild growth is home to pink lupines, and orange and blue periwinkles. The field is backlit with the remaining embers of a glistening bronze sunset.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic, paint marker, metallic powder on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
A mass of raised yellow flowers with iridescent accents blanket a field under a creamy blue sky. Scattered clouds bring to mind a breezy spring day. Sand added to the paint in the sky creates additional texture.
18" x 24" x 1.5"
Acrylic, sand on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
Series: A Study in Black and Red
After taking a break from creating art, I knew I needed to come back to it. To charge my creative energies, I challenged myself to focus on a minimal color palette to see what would come out of that. I chose black and red. It was simple - no color decisions to make - just pick up a brush or palette knife and go. It was just what I needed to restart my practice. We can’t help but grow when we give ourselves permission to do things in a different way or look at things from a different angle.
Three black-stemmed, red tulips on a sparce white canvas. A loose, minimalist style that says so much!
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Black plastic floating frame. Paper backing with painting information and artist signature.
Black stems reach up to bright red puff balls on a stark white background.
9" x 12" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Black plastic floating frame. Paper backing with painting information and artist signature.
White stems and leaves veined in black reach up to red ruffle-edged flowers. A black background pushes these beauties front and center!
9" x 12" x .5"
Acrylic, paint marker on canvas
A ghost-white flower with large, thick petals is spread out across a black and white textured background with crimson accents. The flower petals drip over the 1.5" edge of the canvas for dramatic effect!
16" x 20" x 1.5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
Crimson and white flowers float on a background of black. The background is textured with crisscross wide brush strokes to add depth.
11” x 14” x .5”
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Silver floating frame. Paper backing with painting information and artist signature.
Thick layers of crimson petals on a textured black background. Each crimson flower has a raised metallic center. Petals drip over the 2" deep sides of the canvas, giving the piece extra dimension. Silver drizzle adds an element of chaos.
24" x 30" x 2"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
A white textured background is backdrop to "black holes", red sun spots, and yellow solar rays. Or, it's just a bunch of patterns and colors. You decide.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Paper backing with painting information and artist signature
Red and Black swaths of color appear to be splashed onto on a bright white canvas. The way in which the strokes of paint play on the canvas evokes a feeling of peacefulness in the soul.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Painting is wired and ready for hanging
Black plastic floating frame. Paper backing with painting information and artist signature.
Series: Floral Vases
This series is for the free-spirited people who find joy in the simple act of picking wildflowers or snipping some from the garden and placing them carefully into a vase. Whether the intent is to brighten spirits or turn a humdrum space into a vignette, the result is much deeper than that. It’s an expression of love and of self.
A vase full of textured white Shasta Daisies is set against a blue, green and tan embossed background, reminiscent of old wallpaper in an historic home.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
A vase full of textured lavender and white dogwood flowers is set against a blue, green and tan embossed background, reminiscent of old wallpaper in an historic home.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
A vase full of textured pink dogwood flowers is set against a blue and�green�background embossed in tan. It's reminiscent of old wallpaper in an historic home.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
A huge bouquet of flowers in deep shades of burgundy, purple, and blue burst from a large brown vase. Set against a flat black background for dramatic effect. For this bunch of flowers we need the big vase!
30" x 40" x 1.5"
Acrylic on canvas
A bouquet of blue fringed daisies fill a cerulean blue vase set against a background washed in faded blue.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic on canvas
Black-eyed Susans are arranged in a hand thrown clay pot. Their yellow/orange petals splash across a light green background.
16" x 16" x 1.5"
Acrylic on canvas
Series: Abstract Exploration of Being
This series came about when I was working through some emotions. I was feeling the weight of the world - in my personal life and in the larger arena of the power struggles we see all around us. I needed an outlet, and painting flowers wasn’t going to cut it. This series came to be intuitively, and resulted in these four pieces with energies around chaos, our personal and collective unraveling, abuse of power, and finding our way through.
Life can feel chaotic at times with all the things to be done and undone. The building and rebuilding can seem endless. It can be difficult to sort through it all. This work represents an attempt to put things in order while other things are still in bits and pieces all around.
24" x 36" x 1.5"
Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas
Life can be challenging to navigate with its twists and turns, false starts and broken paths. Sometimes the only way through is to let go and let God.
The primary color in this piece is yellow ochre. Motion elements are in black, white, and copper.
24" x 36" x 1.5"
Acrylic on canvas
It can happen gradually or suddenly, but we all experience unravelings of sorts at different points in our lives. It may feel devastating, but it often happens as a way to strip away grief and allow into our souls great joy in the aftermath. Sometimes the only way through is to let go and let God.
24" x 36" x 1.5"
Acrylic on Canvas
A statement on the money that flows even, and especially, in the depths of the most heinous of inhumane behavior. Don't be fooled by the shininess of those pennies from heaven. Often, something sinister behind it lurks.
24" x 36" x 1.5"
Acrylic on canvas
Blackbirds flying in all directions. Background is red, yellow, and black. Birds are outlined in gold and white. It's a chaotic murmuration.
16" x 20" x .5"
Acrylic and paint pens on canvas