Smile

Here is a black and white drawing with markers and found objects of color...getting out some frustration! I went back into it with liquid paper to redefine some white areas and covered some areas with tape to resist the mark making...this piece is a more drawing than collage...

Skeletal remains

Exploring associations between black, white, red, skeletons and letters...variations on a theme, repetitions with changes in scale and context...

Amsterdam Reliquaries

A drawing from one of my favorite Van Gogh pieces, only at the museum in Amsterdam and some play on a series of reliquaries that I worked on many moons ago….the image in the lower right is of a gold reliquary I saw in an Amsterdam museum...

Amsterdam Sketches

These artifacts are from a trip to Amsterdam to visit my cousins and enjoy the sights...There are pictures of my cousins when they were little and living in the states...the trip was a bridge between the past and the future...all the fond memories placed in a new context...in a strange land...repeating forms in different ways, photograph, ink stamps, map, memory...lists....

Studios Magazine

Nice little piece on my studio...it has been revealed before, my studio comes in all forms and has been placed prominently in a one-person exhibition. The significance is its place in the creative process and links nicely to the end "products" artists make...thank you Studios Magazine!

The decorative elements of my thank you cards and the cropped head image is combined to create a visually interesting and slightly disturbing image...I work to draw the viewer in and keep them engaged through contrasting color and conceptual challenges...

Skull Reliquaries

These decorative works have more of a commercial appeal, I have always been interested in skulls and their representation....the materials are plastic box form with painted wood interior and model skull to scale painted....the gold swirls break up the space behind and move the eye into the center, reinforcing the skull...these pieces are painterly but really embody the "object." The skull does move and sway with interaction, the scale is small and intimate, 3 x 5
inches...it can fit in tiny spaces and creates a beautiful shadow on the wall!