All Available Pieces
Furrowed Brow
Furrowed Brow Flash
2017
Watercolour & felt-tip marker on paper, framed
7" x 9"
Furrowed brow is an abstracted tattoo design work on paper, painted in watercolour. A homogenous combination of geometry and organic form, this work was an experimental piece that helped develop a handling on the principles of tattoo configuration and design to lead her further in her exploratory journey.
Saturated Portrait
Saturated Portrait
2017
42" x 36"
Oil on Handbound Canvas
This portrait gains its inspiration for the background primarily from the abstract works by Gershon Iskowitz he created later in his life. Many of his watery works are bleeding from colour to colour, but still take up space as their own primary form.
The portrait, however, has taken the colour scheme to a more muddy, complex level. I mix colours further and use colours in unusual ways, especially in the skin. The portrait is almost like an alien, a slight unsettling coolness in the skin and fire tone in the hair. To top it off, the hair is slightly chipped away, revealing grey colour. Is this unusual saturation, or goodness, covering up something, imperfect, maybe even non-living?
PASTEL
Pastel Landscape
2018
Oil on Canvas
32" x 36"
This abstracted Pastel Landscape was a journey with a new impasto (thick-application) technique I was practicing, while I was also working on my ability to meditate during the painting process. My intention was to look at the blank canvas as an opportunity, rather than having expectations for a 'perfect' painting. I painted with presence and patience for the 'answer' of the painting to come to me. It was the first painting to usurp a mental 'blankness' from me, and I found the experience helpful and convinced me to continue with this introduction to making new works.
This painting is heavy and must be hung firmly on the wall or from the ceiling with a minimum of two screws/fasteners.
Watercolour Sea
Watercolour Sea
2018
24" x 30"
Watercolour on Paper, Framed
Watercolour Sea was a work where I honed my technical skills referencing detailed imagery while painting, but proceeding with abstraction to carry my idea further. Painting with watercolour can limit your ability to layer paint, or can provide you new opportunities. I try my best to allow a watercolour painting to do the latter.
What does the imagery in Watercolour Sea evoke for you? Do you assign a narrative?
PEONY
PEONY Diptych
2017
2 panels ea. 16" x 20"
Oil Paint, Printed on Canvas
Peony Diptych was an experimental artwork used to understand the fiscal differences of a work that was created with tools originally intended for alternate mediums. I created the floral tattoo-like design on paper and cut it to be a stencil, then proceeded to 'paint' using rollers intended for lino-cut printing, while using impasto oil paint. The resulting image was bright in some areas, yet subdued and inverted in the peonies. Warm and inviting, this painting would welcome a closer look and would look good hung any distance apart from one another.
Peace Meadow
Peace Meadow
2020
3" x 3"
Oil on Canvas
Peace Meadow brought me peace painting the work from the mind and its very small size is perfect for small spaces or added to a wall mixed with other artwork.
Blue Aged Eye
Blue Aged Eye
2019
6" x 6" x 1.5"
Oil on Canvas
Blue Aged Eye brought me peace painting this work from the mind and its small size is perfect for small spaces or added to a wall mixed with other artwork. Do you see it? The markings below the eye are almost concentrically circular, almost more-than-human. I often, when painting from the mind, like to insert subtleties of fantasy in work. Maybe I am inventing my own world.
Features
-Gallery edges of 1.5"
-Impasto texture
VISION
VISION
2014
8.75" x 11.1" x .75"
Watercolour on Paper, Framed
VISION I painted years ago when I was at an earlier point in my life and climbing different mountains. Different things that were disturbing my peace then, now looking back do not seem terribly different, really only the beginning of what I face now. The tree seems almost like it's dying, but with these vivid eyes & bleeding colours the tree seems...aware. Cognizant.
I really like that I had this awareness back then, and I am refreshed of this now.
Colour Study 01
Colour Study 01
2020
Oil on Canvas
5" x 7" x .75"
Colour Study 01 is simply a first step in a deliberate experiment with colour. With the Colour Study Series I hope to utilise 'leftovers', remains of paints rehydrated with medium to mix the illusion of a landscape. I hope for the colours to initiate an interaction with the viewer. I ask, how do you feel in this landscape? And maybe what you said is something you are actually attracted to..
Hungry Ovenbird
Hungry Ovenbird
2013
Oil on Canvas
8" x 10"
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This work was a stepping stone into the realm of what oil paint can do under the hand versus acrylic. As one of my first personal oil explorations, I was able to experiment with the medium as a tool in a true manner for the first time, whereas with acrylic it felt like a laborious task or fight against acrylic's natural qualities. This painting was the beginning of a beloved relationship with oil paint, which I appreciate as a symbol of an experience.