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RECENT WORK
Oil on paper
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SOLITUDE
oil on paper 24" x 18​

"Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.   

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly ..."

Tulips, Sylvia Plath    

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NOSTALGIA FOR THE WINTER RAIN
oil on paper 24" x 18"

"Where the kind rain sinks and sinks,

Green of Spring will follow."  

Winter Rains, Christina Rossetti    

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MOONRISE OVER ROCKY SHORES
oil on paper 24" x 18"

"And who has seen the moon, who has not seen

Her rise from out the chamber of the deep ..."

Moonrise, D.H. Lawrence    

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SUNRISE BENEATH MAGNOLIA BLOOMS
oil on paper 24" x 18"

"Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms,

And with the heat of noon; and numberless sylvan islands ..."

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

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MIDWINTER SUNLIGHT ON FLOWERS AND LAMP
oil on paper 24" X 18"

"I do know there’s no need to apologize

for my own gladness, today, 

midwinter, that has

no apparent cause in the daylight cast

from the sun."

Midwinter, Nadia Colburn    

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SKY OF BLUE AND SEA OF GREEN
oil on paper 24" X 18"

"Sky of blue and sea of green

In our yellow submarine"

Yellow Submarine, The Beatles    

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OUR POND IN WINTER
oil on paper 24" X 18"

"... snowfall makes no noise, falls

as forgetting falls, flake after flake."  

The Snowfall is So Silent, Miguel de Unamuno    

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SEA GLASS
oil on paper 24" X 18"

"I want to age like sea glass. Smoothed by tides, not broken ... feel the impact of the surging tides rolling in and out."

I Want to Age Like Sea Glass, Bernadette Noll    

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DENIM VALENTINE
oil on paper  9.5 " x 7.5"

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LAUNDRY DAY
oil on paper  9.5 "
 x 7.5"

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MENDED JEANS
oil on paper  9.5 "
 x 7.5"

"I have come home to wash my clothes.

They patter on the bathroom floor like rain."

The Dirty Laundry Poem, Erica Jong    

Painting with paper

These paintings began on a surface of painted paper collaged on wood panel and additional layers were added with acrylic paint, pencil, and pen. The paintings are spare and restrained; however, areas of bright color and energetic marks convey movement and energy.

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POST MERIDIAN IMPROMPTU 
mixed media on panel  18" x 18"

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MORNING COMMUTE: CANTATA FOR TRAFFIC, PODCAST, AND LATTE TO-GO
mixed media on panel  18" x 18"

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SAND AND COBBLESTONES
mixed media on panel  12" x 12"

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HEADLANDS CANON
mixed media on panel  12" x 12"

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GALLIARD WITH MORNING TABLOIDS
AND COFFEE
mixed media on panel  12" x 12"

DRESSING ROOM SERENADE
mixed media on canvas  10" x 5"

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