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 […]
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.
Viva Cuba Libre NFS
I did this collage in response to a trip to Cuba. It was prompted by picking up a tattered piece of paper off the ground which reminded me of the decrepit building facades in Havana. The tattered paper is in the left hand corner and towards the middle (three pieces in total)of the piece. So […]