Family – NFS
I did this collage to see if I could successfully do portrait collages. This piece depicts my son and his family. I incorporated my grand-daughter’s artwork, my son’s artwork, many photos of the family at various points in their lives. The reference for this was a photo from a holiday card.
Meta Muse – SOLD
I struggled with this “made up” portrait until I decided to overlay a manipulated photo of the Mona Lisa printed on transparent vellum on top of the face. So this piece is a homage to Leonardo DaVinci in a round about way. There are at least nine layers of collage pieces in most of this […]
Mountains, Mesas and So On-SOLD
This is one of my “layered landscapes” which I built on top of a collaged piece of yupo. I had no reference for this. It is completely made up. I live in the land of mountains and mesas in Colorado, so I guess it just happens by environmental osmosis. This piece belongs to a collector.
Old Tulips – SOLD
I love to do floral still lifes in collage. I start with a collaged ground and build the still life on top using many layers. Still life art can be static, but with the layers of images underneath the main subject matter, I find it exciting to see how much meaning and content I can […]
Sheep Sanctuary SOLD
This collage is done on a 12×12 cradled board (it looks like a box). It is part of my forest series and was created with magazine papers, paint and tissue papers. Forests are magical places and I try to recreate that magic by concentrating on the light shining from behind the trees. You are apt […]
Wildfire Afternoon SOLD
I painted this experimental watermedia piece on Yupo* several summers ago during an extreme drought in Colorado. There was an almost constant smoky haze and odor in the air from the many wildfires around the region. I thought the intense hot colors of red, orange and rose had to be counter-balanced by shots of blues […]
The Capitalist
This is an example of a portrait collage that I did as a demonstration. I shot a photo of my husband at his desk and did the collage based on that photo and my long-time experience of looking at his face. It is done with found papers and tissue and washi papers on his face. […]
Backlight Borders
watermedia on yupo, matted and framed 19″ x 25″ $1000.00 This experimental watercolor has been juried into three watermedia exhibits: 2007 – Western Federation of Watercolor Societies of which I am a signature member, 2007 – Western Colorado Watercolor Society in which it won an Honorable Mention and 2008- Colorado Watercolor Society‘s New Trends Show.
Segovia Cathedral-SOLD
I did this collage as my first all magazine collage demonstration in a class that I taught at the Art Center in Grand Junction. It is based on a photo that I took of the magnificant cathedral in Segovia, Spain which was lit up on a summer’s evening. It is in the collection of an […]