Magic

Celebrating the beauty and magic in the every day from the constellations to imagined creatures, nature, and beyond.

 Nature Makes a Comeback

Canvas, wood, and paper mixed media paintings celebrating the resilience of nature.

UKRAINE

 This work is visual journaling of the War in The Ukraine.

Circus

This is a collection of series including the fifteen day countdown before the American election as well as visual journaling of American politics

Visual journaling about the Residential Schools in Canada and the United States

COVID Stacking figures

 This series emerged through the Pandemic as stacking guardian figures created from reworked monoprints.

COVID: Essential Workers

DEDICATED TO FIRST RESPONDERS AND ESSENTIAL WORKERS ACROSS THE WORLD

The planet today and into the future

MONOPRINTS

I arrive at my images through the process of monoprinting. I see an implied shape created by the repeated passes through the press and pull that form forward so that each print has its own spontaneous vitality. The shapes are organic, worn, sharp, and blunt, creating imagined worlds. The many passes through the press form an atmospheric and varied veil of color similar to water or thick air. This way of working allows me to generate new images and shapes that also remain connected through mark and the stenciling materials. I use found objects both from nature and the street to create new forms.  This idea of finding edges and shapes in parts and pieces is inspired by artist Sal Cammarata.  I remember as a child him holding up a Wrigley silver gum wrapper above an incredibly beautiful abstract graphite drawing and saying “I just found the shape and drew it”.  Grace and beauty in the daily.

ENDANGERED SPECIES

I have always drawn animals as they are a center point and balance to my life.  As a young child I spoke very late and enjoyed the company of cats and dogs  more than peers.  I loved finding frogs and toads in the creeks and woods of Trumansburg and Ithaca in Upstate New York.

When I moved to the West Coast, I was impressed by the variety of animals and started painting them. The environment became increasingly present in my work after the  birth of my daughter Cecile, which focused my attention on the environmental issues she and future generations will experience. 

MYTHICAL ANIMALS

Folktales and myths have always been integral to my understanding of the world. Overtime, hybrid creatures and genetic engineering have blended with the mythological images of my childhood and I find myself drawing connections – the web of life to environment, food production, and the planet.