ART

I am inspired by natural systems and phenomena, cultural landscape shifts and fractures and how habits and history influence them. I aim to capture and recreate something of their quality and influence how they are perceived. I work from life, imagination, photographs, maps and scientific imagery. My mark-making is repetitive and layered, both quick and deliberate, building spaces on various scales. Often I view my paintings as exercises in seeing that create atmospheres, prompting the viewer to think of their own relationship to the space within the work.

"Hummingbird Tales" , 2010, 48" x 72", Acrylic on Canvas

"Path of the Nautilus", 2009, 48" x48", Acrylic on Canvas "Northeastern Exposure", 2009, 48" x 48", Acrylic on Canvas

"Skin + Earth" , 2009, 24" x 48", Acrylic and Enamel on Board

" Skin + Earth -2" 2009, 24" x 48", Acrylic and Enamel on Board

"Untitled", 2003, 24" x 24", Mixed Medium on Board "Untitled", 2003, 24" x 24", Mixed Medium on Board

"Untitled", 2003 24" x 24", Mixed Medium on Board "Untitled", 2003 24" x 24", Mixed Medium on Board

Untitled, 2001, 48" x 48", Mixed Medium on Board

"Days Like Grass", 2001, 32" x 80", Oil on Canvas

"Field", 2001, 32" x 30", Mixed Medium on Board

"Untitled", 2001, 48" x 48", Mixed Medium on Board

"Dwell", 2001, 48" x 48", Mixed Medium on Board

LEPIDOPTERA: Art + Ecology

This began as a project to identify common garden butterflies, moths and their caterpillars. They also generate curiosity about the natural world, add beauty and inspire hope. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I set about creating one hundred small butterfly paintings to be distributed to medical professionals and other essential workers. Together with my son we gifted sixty so far.

ART FOR ENVIRONMENTAL + SOCIAL CHANGE

For centuries the butterfly has been a symbol of change, resilience, hope and much more in various cultures. Using the black swallowtail butterfly as a base, this art is meant to bring awareness about social and environmental inequalities created by systemic racism.

INTERACTIVE/ MURAL ART

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