Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1.5 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : My life long interest in capturing the intangible qualities of a person through a drawing or painting is intertwined with my career as an Art Therapist. To capture one's human spirit, I must observe closely while relying on my intuition to achieve a felt sense of another. It is this internal experience that leads me to this path of exploration and discovery. The light falling on a figure only adds to the magic!
Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 0.75 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : My life long interest in capturing the intangible qualities of a person through a drawing or painting is intertwined with my career as an Art Therapist. To capture one's human spirit, I must observe closely while relying on my intuition to achieve a felt sense of another. It is this internal experience that leads me to this path of exploration and discovery. The light falling on a figure only adds to the magic!
Dimensions: 30 x 24 x 2 Media: Acrylic on canvas - framed. Artist Statement : This painting depicts the jigsaw puzzles we all used to play with when we were younger. It reminds us of the excitement when first beginning the puzzle, the challenge as we played with the many pieces, and ultimately the joy and satisfaction we experienced once it was completed. I hope it captures the innocence and memories of youthful playtime.
Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 0.75 Media: Oil pen on canvas Artist Statement : We all did it when we were younger. When boredom struck, we doodled on our books, a random sheet of paper, or on anything we could find. Whether it was in class, on the playground, or in the privacy of our room, we pretended to be an artist. While doodling, time moved quickly and suddenly we were much less bored. Masterpieces were created as we played with our doodles.
Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 2 Media: Original Acrylic and Graphite on Canvas Artist Statement : Our oldest son plays hockey and it’s a big part of our life (and income) six months out of the year. My husband is his coach and although I don’t go to many games (checking wrecks me), it’s been a wonderful way for our older son to grow and mature. I never thought that would happen. He was my clingiest baby and barely let me put him down the first three years of his life. He was also my best sleeper and snuggler. Now he’s a master hip checker and at 6’1” so far, he’s one of the taller kids in his league here in Northern Michigan. Our big boy lives and breathes ice and is turning 16 in a couple months. I wanted to paint something for him. It’s based on a stellar photo that his oldest sister took. Commissions in my original style are avail.
Dimensions: 40 x 3 x 30 Media: Original Mixed Media (Acrylic, paper, pastel) on Canvas Artist Statement : This large canvas was actually used as my drop cloth for smaller paintings these past fifteen years. I also used it to try out new medias and techniques such as paper mache, sculpting mediums, spray paints, etc. This canvas has been exposed to nearly every painterly idea, good and bad, I've had in recent years.
At the beginning of 2025, while looking at the canvas (which looked like a train wreck at first glance), I began to see figures and forms peering back at me. The canvas wanted to be something other than a drop cloth. So, I put it on the floor and began to apply neutral acrylic paints until I those forms began to resemble the characters hoping to make themselves known.
Dimensions: 13 x 16 x 1 Media: White-line color woodcut Artist Statement : Using bright colors and simple abstraction I like to give a person the big picture of an event. The piece ideally will relay motion and activity as if the viewer is a part of the artwork.
Dimensions: 3.5 x 3.75 x 0.4 Media: Low fire stoneware Artist Statement : This piece is part of a larger body of work exploring boyhood, connection, and masculinity. My recent work has looked at the objects that stand out as most significant to that period of my life while also connecting to a larger social narrative around ideas such as friendship, play, family, memory, loss, and trauma. Through objects like this Sega cartridge, I am establishing a connection to a period of time that, to me, is both nostalgic and fraught, joyful and tragic, while trying to connect the audience with their own memories around these objects and the periods in time that they owned, interacted with, or observed these objects in use or at play.
Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 5.5 Media: Low fire stoneware Artist Statement : This piece is from a series of architectural inspired forms that explored meaningful places from past periods of my life. One of a dozen tree houses built in this series, this piece feels closest to the tree houses I built as a child, often with the help of my maternal grandfather and typically constructed out of a hodge podge of found materials. The piece symbolizes the relationship I had with my grandfather and serves as a metaphor for appreciating all the things in life, even when they are messy, piecemeal, and eventually bound to decay - much like my grandfather's final years of life as he battled dementia and other ailments that left his body and mind severely deteriorated. It is a reminder of both the happy and melancholic times that I had with him, but also a reminder of the joy that those structures brought to me, my friends, and my younger siblings as we played in them throughout our childhood.
Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 Media: Colored Pencil Artist Statement : Children like to draw and when they do, they create what they imagine their subject should look like and draw what they see in their mind's eye. I took that idea and fleshed out what their drawing would look like if it was a three dimensional figure in real life.
Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 1 Media: WATERCOLOR, PEN & INK Artist Statement : Every summer, in a small village in Northern New England the town holds a patriotic parade. Everyone participates. The usual participants include drivers of old timey tractors and antique cars, truck pulled floats promoting the virtues of local charities, the fire department, and the public library. Children ride along with decorated bicycles, and a puppet theater group that has their own band consisting mostly of kazoos, saxophones, and a trumpeter, is always included. The masks they wear are all made out of found objects such as old sheets, mixing bowls, and paper mache. Some of the creations project a social message while others are just for fun. Politicians usually participate as well, especially if it's an election year. This piece is just a snippet of some of the chaos occuring during one of those parades.
Dimensions: 32 x 36 x 1.5 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : This painting is of a group of boys on a playground in India. While visiting India, I was struck by the joy and camaraderie the children had while playing in a barren open space; they only needed a simple kite and each other's company to enjoy the afternoon.
Dimensions: 9.41 x 15 Media: Photography Artist Statement : The rural towns of Cuba-such as Vinales- are in large part free of the urban poverty and dysfunction so prominent in cities like Havana. To the visiting outsider, life seems bucolic and of a simpler time. The joy expressed by these boys as they kick around a soccer ball that may have seen better days, reflects that reality.
Dimensions: 11.61 x 15 Media: Photography Artist Statement : Street photography after dark in Havana holds untold surprises around every almost every corner, including this game of "pick-up dominoes." The image captures both sides of the concept of play, from the intense concentration of the man on the right, who I imagine would be exuberant in victory, to his opponent in the center, who seems to be finding joy in simply playing.
