RECENT WORK
Oil on paper
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DENIM VALENTINE
oil on paper 9.5 " x 7.5"
LAUNDRY DAY
oil on paper 9.5 " x 7.5"
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.
POST MERIDIAN IMPROMPTU
mixed media on panel 18" x 18"
MORNING COMMUTE: CANTATA FOR TRAFFIC, PODCAST, AND LATTE TO-GO
mixed media on panel 18" x 18"
SAND AND COBBLESTONES
mixed media on panel 12" x 12"
HEADLANDS CANON
mixed media on panel 12" x 12"
GALLIARD WITH MORNING TABLOIDS
AND COFFEE
mixed media on panel 12" x 12"
DRESSING ROOM SERENADE
mixed media on canvas 10" x 5"
