My Portfolio
Torn Paper Collage
Love All Buttoned Up
10” x 10” Torn Paper Collage on Watercolor paper Catalog #10-020 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available I love buttons. I love hearts and anything to do with love. This piece is a representation of those people in our lives that truly have all of our love… without question!
Simple Pleasures
9” x 12” Torn Paper Collage on Watercolor Paper Catalog# 10-019 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available Flowers… they are complex creations of nature yet invoke a simple pleasure of beauty and well-being in most people. They are one of my most simple pleasures … whether I am planting, buying, arranging, smelling, photographing, viewing or creating them in my art…they are one of the simple things in life.
Stand Alone
16” x 20” Torn Paper Collage on Canvas Board Catalog #10-018 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available "Sometimes we must stand alone in the world… and be okay with it"… I look at tall palm trees just standing alone in the world in all of their glory and it gives me the courage to not only stand alone when I must, but more importantly be okay with it.
Summer Garden
9" x 12" image on 11" x 15" paper Catalog #10-017 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available The vivid colors of summer gardens in bloom make the summer just that much more bright.
Flower Garden
12” x 12” Torn Paper Collage on Watercolor Paper Catalog# 10-002 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available While recovering from Breast Cancer I enjoyed the beauty of the many flower gardens that would pass on my daily walks. Gardens speak a lot about the gardener… do they like one color in their garden… one type of flower… neatly arranged rows… or a combination of many textures, colors and varieties of blooms?
Sway
14” x 14” Torn Paper Collage on 1 ½” Gallery Wrapped Canvas Catalog #08-012 Original Available Prints Available Sometimes I just start to play with my materials… no specific idea or theme in mind… Sway was the result of an artistic play day!
Market Place
9” x 12” Torn Paper Collage on Canvas Board Catalog #08-011 Original – SOLD Prints and Greeting Cards Available One of my goals in 2007 as I was creating my new artistic life was to be published. This piece was created as a call to artists to interpret the theme "Provence"… Imagine my excitement when I received word that it was in fact selected and published in the July/August 2008 issue of Somerset Studios!
Love
9” x 9” Torn Paper Collage mounted on white mat board Framed in White Wood Catalog # 07-005 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available
Melting Colors Garden
12” x 16” Torn Paper Collage on Watercolor Paper Catalog #07-003 Original SOLD Prints and Greeting Cards Available This piece is a recreation of one of my "healing" paintings. The papers were created using various mediums. Each piece was hand torn and layered… with the buttons added as the final touch.
The Shadow
14-1/4” x 17-1/4” Torn Paper Collage on Canvas Board Framed in Mahogany Catalog #07-002 Original Available Prints and Greeting Cards Available Another playdate with collage… this piece started with a black gesso background and grew from there… the juxtaposition of the sun and the tree created… The Shadow…