Current work:

Trail Diaries:
The trail paintings are my love letters to the beautiful wild places I’ve had the privilege to hike. When walking trails for a day, or better yet, several days at a time, sanity and perspective are recaptured as well as a profound sense of wonder. Away from the distraction and screen scrolling of everyday life, some clarity returns.

The concertina books:
Creating the books gives me a place to collect imagery as I spend time with the natural world in my own backyard and occasionally farther afield. The book form provides a fresh visual experience each time it’s opened. There is a sense of anticipation and a sequential visual journey as the pages are turned or spread open by the viewer. The book becomes a portable repository of time well spent.

Older work:
#artduringCovid
Pandemic lockdown resulted in a big shift in my work, a silver lining in my Covid cloud. Not able to travel and spend time with family and friends, I spent time with people and places by drawing and painting them referencing 30 years of photographs. My husband and I took these images while traveling and raising three sons, but I never had adequate time to peruse them. Lockdown gave me an opportunity to do this and the photos became the basis of my latest body of work. I went back to basics, spending newfound blocks of time to draw with oil stick and oil pastel from compilations of images. After a few months, I continued to develop this new direction in acrylic and flashe paint, employing the looser techniques I have used in my more abstract pieces.