A gallery of work

This past year I have painted and drawn on a variety of surfaces, collaged with candy wrappers and antique flash cards, and sewn paper and fabric together to make huge paintings.
Here are some of my favorites

just some normal every day stuff

I am in a small town in Michigan shooting with Country Living this week and back home Sunday. I miss my little family and was thinking that I would share some photos I have been taking of them over the last few months here. My two beautiful daughters could be the most amazing works of art I have ever taken part in creating adn I am just lucky to have such an amazing boyfriend I am back home sunday night and will be getting back to work on some new paintings or should I say finishing some new paintings, but for now, some gorgeous faces, afterall they are a huge part of my inspiration to make things in general.

New work in my little far away house

I know, I know, I have been terrible at keeping up at this. I thought I would have so much more time on my hands to keep this going once I moved, but in actuality I am so much busier travelling back and forth between here and whatever coastline I am attending on a given week, that I have been terrible.
But I have been working, painting and drawing, throwing a lot of things away, but keeping a few. I have two fresh canvases in front of me as we speak that are blank and ready for me, and I can't wait to get started, but my little one Zana has whooping cough and can't stop coughing and I have training this afternoon so it might have to wait until later when I have a glass of wine in hand the humidifier is going full blast for the cough and I have re-heated the Indian food I made last night as a repeat for dinner again...

Here are some new pieces though, they are not as colorful as they usually are, but I like them that way for now....

the alphabet

here are some sketches and random works on papers to begin an alphabet series.... some of these were collaborations with Herb. Let's just say that my part is the messy part and his is the cleaner part. We have different styles....  I am going to do an alphabet series on paper first and then work them into larger canvases.  I am also very into the black on black and grey on grey which will go into the" black, white and blank series " I am forever working on
a....b.... c...d..........................

Lost in the Mountains and domestic bliss

It has been quite some time since I last said or showed anything here. Happy New Year to everyone, I am pretty sure it will be a great one!
So I made the move to  Montana, in Missoula and have been working head down on this very small farm house that sits on a nice chunk of land at the base of a mountain in "the Rattlesnake Canyon". we have a creek running through the yard, that of course is frozen solid right now and buried under many, many inches even feet of snow. It is cold and wintery and beautiful and bright. I am very much in love with my most wonderful boyfriend Herb and my two daughters are happy to be exploring a different life in a world of outdoor bliss. There have been trips to hotsprings, cross country skiing,  snow tubing, tons of cooking experiments and winter marshmallow roasting on the dock at the cabin on the lake. It is nice to feel like my life is changing in a way that I can have a more even distribution of focus between family, love, work and just doing new things.
In a few weeks I will be showing pictures of the inside of the house, but here is a photo of it from the outside, "our little house".

And then there is work, new work.

works on paper mostly, new canvases are in process. I will be working in San Francisco next week and am hoping to have some great things to show you from there, but promise to be back in the saddle sharing what I am making and doing more often.

two new paintings

I have finally had some time to make some new works on canvas. I was struggling a bit with some of the smaller sized ones, but I made two that I really liked. it is a new color scheme on one of them. They are both very light and airy, a new thing for me...
off to Montana again, loving it...

new discoveries

I recently went to a clients house to look at some artwork and was stunned and thrilled to see this beautiful work on paper hanging on the wall. The colors were rich and saturated. The lines were rough and edgy, but the solid shapes were strong and full of purpose.
I was given the artists name and some links and have been researching him. His work is beautiful. he died a few years ago, but his work can be seen all over the place, but most especially at a museum dedicated to him in Spain. The link is above.
Here are some of my favorites. I was very excited to come across this art, it really is so beautiful!