My painting practice is in dialog with allegorical landscape painting, historic anthropological illustration, and video games, sparked by a lifelong interest in horticulture and narratives about femininity, beauty and power. Paintings refuse traditional depictions of nature as moral, inert, and background by littering the mythic Western landscape with personal narratives of interdependence, technology, and toxicity. My compositions break from linear narrative forms with vignettes, playing the fluidity of the paintings surface, and creating classical illusions of depth and form. The durational time frame of making a painting allows me to sustain deep state of stillness and focus. Color and saturation evoke emotional intensity, and carries a symbolic resonance of pending doom, or resolution through transformation and empowerment.
Watching Saturday Morning Cartoons Together | Acrylic and gouache on wood panel | 16” x 20” x .75”
Baroque Drought (suburb where I left the water running) | Acrylic and gouache on wood panel | 15.5”x 12”x.75”
Going Under (I spy Mermaid Purses) | Acrylic and gouache on wood panel |15.5”x 12” .75”
Lace Leaf, Match Stick, Forever | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Milk Thistle Husks, Garnets, Desert | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Bunny Ear Cacti, Bendy Straws, LEGOs, Dawn | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Sandal Wood, Pine, Lake Bottom | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Ode to Thyme | Acrylic on Panel | 16” x 9” x 2”
Diffenbachia in Fair Condition | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Returning to Seed | Acrylic on Panel | 11.5” x 13”
Reaching Funkia | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
O Sole Mio | Acrylic on Wood Panel | 15″ x22″
Lion’s Bane | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Waiting for Abulia | Acrylic on Panel | 15” x 13”
Dandy | Acrylic on Aluminum | 8”x 10”
Red Hot Poker | Acrylic on Aluminum and Wood | 10″ x 12″
Cinquefoil and Pill Bugs | Acrylic on Aluminum and Wood | 10″ x 12″
Forest Eulogy | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”
Overwhelming among the Gillies | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”
Mothering Wound | Acrylic on Panel | 42” x 60” x 2”