My landscapes celebrate the beauty, power and tranquility of nature. My aim is to create a type of familiarity or emotional connection with each scene even though the majority of my work is of imagninary places. My process isn’t straight forward and through playful techniques and experimentation these landscapes emerge into reality.

Art Of Collage

These landscape collages are part of a group show titled “The Art of Collage” currently on display from June 7th to July 19th at Secondstreet Gallery in Charlottesville Virginia. Forty artists were carefully selected from 150 applications to create a diverse exhibition of collage styles. These mixed media landscapes are imaginary places and continue to build on the themes of meditation and the metaphorical parallels of the human journey and symbolism in nature. All works are available for sale through the show date. Link to Online Store Sizes Row 1- 4.5”x6.5” Row 2 - 7.5”x9.5” Last Image-12”x15”

Listen in the Valley

These small works are meditations on familiar metaphors. In life, we spend much of our time in the metaphorical “valley” and while some might consider this idea the reflection of a low point, the valley is a place where we take shelter. The valley is spiritually nourishing, a place of peace, where hard work and preparation is done, where rest can be taken in and reflection and contemplation awarded before the next leg of our great journey. In getting to the top of a peak we are rewarded by a view of the valley below and we remember the journey and work that got us there.

First two images are 15”x19” the rest are 6” X 8” Hand painted papers- Ink, Acrylic Polymer, Pen, Watercolor, Wax on Yupo Paper

All works are sold

Dale Avenue Pop Up Gallery

November 10, 2023

Landscape Renderings

Unlike the imaginary places I create, these images are based on acutal locations and created as commissioned renderings for the landscape architecture firm Local Design Collective. Unlike traditonal renderings used my most companies these pieces add artistry, embody mood and environmental conditions and the spirit of the location and landscape. They are used in presentations as page breaks and chapter headers , before and after scenes and if the client desires, a disp;lay piece. All works are mixed media.