2021
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This year the role that burlap played in my work was transitional. I began the year with a continued use of burlap buried beneath paint and functioning as a way to create texture. I abandoned color as a main element and included the use of plaster to integrate emb...
2020
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This body of work represents a deeper exploration into the use of extreme texture in my work.
Early in the exploration I am trying to incorporate texture, shape, color and line as part of the formal elements of composition. Toward the later half of the year I be...
Apparel
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My formal training at the School of Art Institute was in Textile and Fiber Art. After graduation, I began my own business designing and manufacturing hand-painted fabrics and clothing for apparel and site-specific interiors. My clothing line was carried by spec...
Bird Studies
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These bird studies were a bridge from being a textile artist to a visual artist. Moving away from my large studio I needed a medium that was small and portable. I’ve always had a love for birds and chose to work in a small format on paper. I found great j...
Mixed Media 2019
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This collection of work was early dive into combining mark making with collage, found objects and painting techniques. In these pieces I developed an interest in texture that was created mostly through layers of paint. Little by little the importance o...
2018
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These images represent a shift in materials that occurred toward the end of the year. I was exploring combining mark making with collage and painting techniques, using simple shapes and forms. I wanted to build up rich color with glazing, transparency, and simple...
2017
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This gallery represents my earliest endeavors in mixed media and acrylic painting. I was exploring the concepts of color value and design, as well as learning a variety of painting techniques. The pieces began as free form explorations with many layers. Each layer...
2016
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This gallery my launch into mixed media and acrylic painting. 2016 was the year I participated in the Nicholas Wilton Art2Life Creative Visionary Program. It was introduction to mixed media and the concepts of color value and design, as well as learning a variety ...
The Burlap Project
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The Burlap Project evolved from my continued interest in integrating texture and fabric with my mixed media techniques using acrylic paint and collage.
I wanted to narrow the focus of what I was doing to these materials in an effort to really dig deeper...
Speed Painting
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These studies were an exercise in rapidly beginning a painting without hesitation or judgment. The objective was to paint freely and begin to develop random areas that held interest for me.
All of this work was done with acrylic paint and graphite on paper....
Limited Color
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This gallery displays the exercises used to explore color and design. Starting with one color and only the element of stripes, the objective was to create a composition and learn the impact of value, color and saturation can have on design.
These studies wer...
Exploring Shape
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These exercises were an exploration into shape. How to create shape, composition with shape, studying the weight and balance of shape and tryin to create variety with shape.
These pieces were created with acrylic paint, collage, acrylic marker and graphite...
