Oil Painting -Fall, Greenway 2025
Style
In this plein air painting I worked on the site of the Oklawaha Greenway for several mornings in October 2025. The objective was to keep an overall simplicity to the light and form with a focus on the path.
Oil Painting -Late Summer GArden 2024
Style
My work is heavily influenced by a history of my observation of nature both experienced over time and in the moment. In this plein air painting I worked on the site in my yard for several days over a two week period in 2024, after Hurricane Helene. I have a long relationship with this garden and I am particularly drawn to the seasonal variations of color and light . The details in the garden are the focus but the gate is open so there is a way through.
Print Collage new 2024
Flower Speak
Set in a marsh the flower houses send messages from Kiku Chrysanthemum -happiness, Joy ,celebration ,Hanashobu-Blue Iris-Hope and Faith and the variegated red tulip-“beautiful eyes”( I interpret this to mean the eyes seek beauty). The robin is the messenger from the spiritual realm and the yellow Goldfinch a symbol of luck and prosperity. The doors whisper in different voices, the qui
The Earth Is What We All Have In Common (Wendell Berry)
The community of houses with their rich color and temperament sit comfortably next to each other on lawns of Spring green grass and back yards of lavender. The doors and pathways to the houses further detail the characters within. The sidewalk with detailed text about the earths orbit sits next to the celestial scope of the street. Above it a
House Series 2020-2022 Covid and beyond - Print/Collage
Camping Families (SOLD)
A sense of adventure comes with camping in the wilderness. Tickets purchased to access National Park sites represent each family house and the doors each have a map of where the visit took place. It is summer and the lawn reflects the memory of the landscapes visited. A canyon wren sings in the tree and fish swim in the dark water that is the sidewalk.
Sequestered, Linked By The Stars (SOLD)
People in houses this Spring 2020 during the Covid-19 Pandemic are isolated but not alone. Inside communication thrives through letters, phones, art and the internet. The street and entryways join like a galaxy connecting the inhabitants
from all points of the earth. The sidewalk hums a persistent tune and Spring bursts forth with powerful beauty.
On The Street Where We Live (SOLD)
A distinct feather on each door designates the cultural identity of the people within. The entryways and street boundary lines mark off the State where each resident has come from. The sidewalk is a tangle of confused equations. The messages in the clouds are the pervasive media, our tenuous connection to the world. As the year of the Pandemic progressed the tension of the presidential election and mask or no mask became a focus in the community at large. There was an uneasy atmosphere of separation and alienation from neighbors as if we were fiercely in this tribe or another or from red state or blue.
A little history on what I have been up to
1985 Just out of Graduate School in my studio in downtown Hendersonville. I also worked part time across the hall for the Four Seasons Arts Council till 1988.
Taught Studio Art and Art Appreciation at Western Carolina University, Brevard College and Blue Ridge Community College starting in 1979 to 2019
Travel
Travel
Summers on the Green River with Camp Greystone girls teaching Painting and a little bit of print making and drawing since 2009. Unfortunately not in 2020,but back at it in 2021!
Travel
Travel
Travel
Being able to visit many wonderful places and see great art is inspiring!
Pictures at work making art
rolling out ink on a relief printing block
preparing canvases to paint on Cranberry Island,ME