Someone once told me” Bloom where you are planted.”
Having moved to many cities, over continents and oceans, my heart wants a constant home. Nature has provided that. No matter where one is, there is inspiration provided by the colors in a sunset, or the rough textures of tree bark or rock forms, or the shine of dewdrops on a flower. So, when the mood to create grabs me, I am never at a loss for where to start. Pouring color into paper pulp or sheets of found paper, shaping, and twisting as I go, the painting takes on a life of its own. I just go with the flow! That’s when I find my moment of Zen.
Floral Sculptures
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Yesterday today tomorrow 36”x36x12”
Orange floral -Sold
cactus flower 16x18"
Hosta Sculpture Sold
Min's flower -Sold
3 poppies -Sold
Peach poppies 16”16”4”
Purple Floral Abstract 24x24"
Pink lotus 15'“x15”x4”
Cruel Spring 24x24x12"
Twin poppies 28”x36”x6”
Hope Springs Eternal -Sold
Red and White floral Abstract 24x24x6"
Rose by any other name
“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along a given path are alike” Paul Coelho.
On our various paths through Life, if we can plant trees and save our oceans, clean our rivers, and nurture the soil, what a legacy of love we will leave for future generations. Several of my abstract paintings start with a pile of cardboard boxes and packaging material that I want to save from Landfills. Remember I earlier said we moved a lot? Well, if Life hands you boxes……. create Art! My trees are made from dyed cardboard, dyed packaging paper, and twisted with dyed muslin from scrap fabric. Some of my old cityscapes started on a sheet of crumpled cardboard.
Abstracts from nature
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Chefchaoen -Sold
Stars collide
Moroccan Door-Sold
Ocean Wave
Koi
Fire sculpture-Sold
Reflection at sunset
Blue Abstract
Walk in the woods 36”48”
Water water 30”x40”
Birch Forest 2-Sold
Banyan Tree 1 48x60x12"
Fall waterfall 36"x48"8"
Sunset on the lake 30”x40”
Fez
During the pandemic, locked in isolation with supply chains broken, the found material I was used to working with, disappeared. But people working from home were producing mountains of office waste. So, I watched video demos till I had learned not only how to turn it into pulp, but also cast and dye the pulp into paper-based paintings, and shapes. Collecting Hosta leaves to cast on, became something of an obsession. Earlier in 2022, when artists finally began to give in person workshops, I learned the mechanics of papermaking from a wonderful teaching artist Jo Stealey.
I continue to experiment with paper made from plant materials, natural and pigment dyes and all manners of wonderful accidents happen.
Watch this space for more of them.
Sculptural lights
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