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Welcome to My Visual Arts Portfolio
Click an image to view selections from the collections described below. Take time to peruse and consider. What comes to mind as you explore the collections? How do they make you feel? Does anything particular move you? Do you respond to the colors, designs, construction, themes, or something else?
The Living - Photography
The poetry of flowers renews our spirits with color, fragrance, and delicacy.
Dead Flowers - Photography
Dead flowers evoke their own beauty - a reminder of past lives and uncharted tomorrows. These photographs emulate the idea of vanitosse captured by the Dutch masters in their incredible flower arrangement paintings. They also remind us of beauty in the aging process.
Bubble Gum and Blood - Mixed Media
Powerful Pink and Radiant Red Hexes:
People consider pink a girl's color (despite its masculine association in the late 19th century) and tie red with witches, anger, and abruptness. In truth, these complex colors represent so much more than a Barbie Sorceress weaponized by patriarchy and custom. The sheer variety of pink and red shades ("hex codes") evoke an emotional range of joy, mindfulness, anxiety, and love, enriching our visual and interior life through sunsets, sunrises, flora, animals, dyes, art, fruits, vegetables, and the very dirt we tread.
Pink and Red embue life with mystery, fun, and profundity.
People consider pink a girl's color (despite its masculine association in the late 19th century) and tie red with witches, anger, and abruptness. In truth, these complex colors represent so much more than a Barbie Sorceress weaponized by patriarchy and custom. The sheer variety of pink and red shades ("hex codes") evoke an emotional range of joy, mindfulness, anxiety, and love, enriching our visual and interior life through sunsets, sunrises, flora, animals, dyes, art, fruits, vegetables, and the very dirt we tread.
Pink and Red embue life with mystery, fun, and profundity.
Mixed Media Collage
I derive great joy from adorning painted backgrounds with everyday objects in unconventional ways. Sometimes I simply like the design - the colors and textures mixing in unlikely patterns, evoking emotions. Sometimes I attach well known associations to the found objects I use in my collages (screws come to mind), and sometimes I envison new symbolism that speaks to my soul. Many of the objects I used caught my eye at one point and I saved them for the right assemblage. These items could be pieces of scrap metal I found in a parking lot, a broken piece from well-loved jewelry item, or anything else that attracts my interest.
What do you see in these paint collages? Do they evoke memories or ideas in your mind? What story do they tell you?
What do you see in these paint collages? Do they evoke memories or ideas in your mind? What story do they tell you?
Paint and More Paint
When I paint, I expore the colors and texture of paint upon varied surfaces. It helps to share my philosphies, thoughts, and ideas through a medium rich with options not focused solely on recreating an image. Drying colors combinations into plastic pieces capable of molding or cutting into shapes allows me to take the liquidity of paint beyond the brush. It allows me to feel the paint directly on my hands as I create.
The Wandering Womb
Collection Under Construction
What started it all - images to come
What started it all - images to come
Celebrations - Mixed Media
Marking occasions with color and texture.
Bottle Boutique - Mixed Media
The shapes, textures, and curves of glass containers, bottles, and vases intrigue me. Once their originals contents have been depleted, they seem to yearn for a second life. I examine how they might be used again, whether to hold flowers, knick knacks, jewerly, or travel liquids. I experiment with different types of paint consistency, sometimes thinned and dripping or sometimes thickened and crumbly. I might add splotches of wet or dried paint, further adorning with pieces of ribbon, jewerly, metal, fabrics, and other found objects.
These bottles are not meant to be perfect - they have yielded to a process of creation that uses colors and charm to brighten their delicacy and functionality, but not to disguise or hide. They are meant to represent the every day and our place in it - whether we feel harried, hurried, humorous, or happy.
These bottles are not meant to be perfect - they have yielded to a process of creation that uses colors and charm to brighten their delicacy and functionality, but not to disguise or hide. They are meant to represent the every day and our place in it - whether we feel harried, hurried, humorous, or happy.
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