Dimensions: 24 x 20 x 0.7 Media: oil on canvas Artist Statement : This is a scene of play -- both child's play, and the playfulness of seasons. These Roanoke, Virginia trees look like fall, but are from late December! I wanted to catch the joyous movement of my youngest granddaughter jumping on a trampoline in my sister's backyard.
Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 0.7 Media: oil on canvas Artist Statement : The three sisters -- my 16, 9, and 4 year old granddaughters -- usually so different in interests, bonded around a baby robin they found lost in the woods behind their Atlanta, Georgia home. The yellow sunlight and purple shadows offset the three figures on a late September afternoon.
Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 0.75 Media: Oil pastel on black wrapping paper Artist Statement : A girl on a swing soars into a swirling sky of radiant color, surrounded by soft, floating pillows and the warmth of a glowing sun. Whirl of Wonder captures the boundless joy of childhood play — that magical space where gravity yields to imagination. Created with oil pastels on black wrapping paper, the piece contrasts the vibrancy of youth with the fragility of what holds it.
The pillows are more than whimsical companions — they are protectors, gentle guardians in flight. Their presence speaks to the need for emotional safety, softness, and support in a child’s world. The work becomes a visual metaphor for a safe childhood: bright, buoyant, and held with care.
Dimensions: 16 x 12 x 1 Media: Watercolor, hand-colored papers and colored pencil on paper board Artist Statement : Play is happening in our house almost all of the time, usually in the form of music! This piece captures my husband (who is a bird lover, with a yellow bird "appearing" on his hand) playing his guitar, expressing color through sound. As with most of my art, I didn't set out to capture him. I've watched him play guitar for almost 20 years, and his hand often appears in my work without me really trying!
Dimensions: 5 x 11 Media: Acrylic on canvas panel Artist Statement : Each summer my family visits Fenwick Island, DE, and I spend time painting on the beach. This child’s sandcastle construction project was interrupted momentarily by a pelican flyby.
Dimensions: 18 x 24 Media: Mixed media: watercolor, colored pencil Artist Statement : I don’t know about anyone else, but I spent a lot of time as a kid riding my green Schwinn bike (with a banana seat!) and pretending it (or I) was a horse. While working on this piece, I was reminded of the song “Wildfire” by Michael Martin Murphy (1975), which I loved especially when I was the age of the child depicted here.
Dimensions: 10 x 12 x 12 Media: wisteria vine, aluminum foil, clementine peels, spray paint Artist Statement : just a silly sequence: i started making balls of miscellaneous aluminum foil (candy wrappers etc. etc.) then it was clementine season and my family liked to peel them in a continuous piece so i let those spirals return to their original ovoid shapes around the foil balls. then they faded so i made them cartoon orange and put them in a basket of wisteria whips from trimming...more ocd than art.
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1 Media: Oil on canvas panel Artist Statement : The smell of fresh-cut grass. Ice cream smeared on my face.
I flipped, crashed, and emerged from a wreck like a super duper mega phoenix hero.
Then saved the world from an incoming asteroid with no mistakes. Zero.
Flawless Victory! No asteroid will defeat me! More ice cream with tons of candy!
Ok my mom says I have to go inside now. Bye!
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1 Media: Photography Artist Statement : The grands provide an endless source of entertainment. Here, at a local water park, they hide under the water.
Dimensions: 14 x 20 Media: Watercolor on Hot Press Paper Artist Statement : I collect modern toys, especially those made from scape metal. One of my three kids' favorite toy is their stuff penguin. So I imagined a place where penguins can play in an imaginary town made up of toys!
Dimensions: 32 x 29 x 1.5 Media: Oil/Acrylic/Mixed Artist Statement : My paintings and drawings are an exploration of the many versions of self - and others - through both figurative and abstract methods. The imagery throughout much of the work suggests disguised (and explicit) emotions, desire and contemplation. I use a figurative lens to create a scaffold for working with contrast and color. I work in multiple mediums, including charcoal, oil and mixed media work and I often include collaged photographic textures and other diverse materials that add dimension and serendipity to the work. My recent work is grounded in an interest in darkness offset by light and glimmers of color. I am fascinated with the use of realism contrasted with drawn/painted objects to evoke mystery, complexity and the dilemmas of being alive.
Dimensions: 48 x 48 x 2 Media: Pencil, pen, ink and acrylic on framed Belgian Linen Artist Statement : Cartoons were the heartbeat of my childhood — a vivid, moving world where imagination took shape and the ordinary melted into magic. Before I ever picked up a pencil or brush, I was absorbing color, rhythm, and expression from the glowing screen. Saturday mornings weren’t just a time slot; they were a ritual, a sacred portal into worlds where animals talked, time bent, and rules were made to be broken. In those cherished moments, I found laughter, comfort, and the early sparks of creativity. Cartoons taught me more than just how to draw exaggerated expressions or dynamic poses — they taught me storytelling, timing, empathy, and how to embrace the unexpected. Each animated frame planted seeds of humor and wonder that continue to bloom in my art today.
Through my art, I aim to recapture that childlike joy and invite others to remember the moments when the world first revealed its magic, one cartoon at a time.
Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 1 Media: Digital Photography Artist Statement : Girls in action in a football match. Two defenders in blue are racing to a through ball with the offensive player in white dashing hopefully. The motion is hinted at with the slightly out of focus legs in motion. The image is cropped to emphasize the legwork of the players and to maintain the focus on the line of the feet to the ball.
The image is 8 x 12 mounted in a 12 x 16 mat.
Dimensions: 16 x 14 x 1 Media: Digital Photography Artist Statement : Midday in Hudson Garden (Littleton CO) later October. The garden is decorated with a variety of pumpkin themed Halloween scenes. This "Penguin-themed" scene along a pond caught my eye in part because of the pond reflections and I thought my grandkids would enjoy it. Part of the applicability of the piece to the "At Play" theme is my whimsy in imagining the penguins are real and at play.
The image is 10 x 10 mounted in a 16 x 14 mat.
Dimensions: 20 x 16 Media: Acrylic Artist Statement : An eternal joy--young boy plays with dog! As artist I tried to minimize background and simply make the body posture and eyes speak for themselves.
