Sculpture: Clay

With White Blossom I was inspired by the Monochrome Art Movement, which lasted from the late 1960s through the 1980s. Monochrome Movement Artists are generation of artists who combined Asian philosophies with Western training to create art that explores color, examines surface, expresses texture and nuance, and holds a wide variety of emotions, intentions, and meanings.

In making this piece, I hand formed clay into individual flowers which I layered one atop another on wood panel.

Collage: Paper on Paper.

This is the last piece I've created of 2020. I wanted to end this very challenging year on a bright note.

Like my similar paper works, this piece is a hand-cut paper collage made from recycled paper that I paint, cut and fold. I wanted to expand on my paper series by taking a modern approach to my floral muse. I like to get up close and let it fill my periphery, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it.

This piece is part of my new Monochrome series. Like my similar paper works, this piece is a hand-cut paper collage made from recycled paper that I paint, cut and fold. I wanted to expand on my paper series by taking a modern approach to my floral muse. I like to get up close and let it fill my periphery, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it.

This piece is part of my new Monochrome series. Like my similar paper works, this piece is a hand-cut paper collage made from recycled paper that I paint, cut and fold. I wanted to expand on my paper series by taking a modern approach to my floral muse. I like to get up close and let it fill my periphery, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it.

This piece is the first of my new Night Garden series. Like my similar paper works, this piece is a hand-cut paper collage made from recycled paper that I paint, cut and fold. I wanted to capture a figment of the boundless sublimity of a field of willd flowers at night. I like to get up close and let it fill my periphery, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it.

This piece is part of my new Night Garden series. Like my similar paper works, this piece is a hand-cut paper collage made from recycled paper that I paint, cut and fold. I wanted to capture a figment of the boundless sublimity of a field of wild flowers at night. I like to get up close and let it fill my periphery, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it.

“Blush” is a clay sculpture that uses color in tactile repetition with pink, coral and red tones winding through the art piece and likened to a desert oasis.

Hand Cut Paper Collage, 50" x 62"

Bloom started as a smaller piece, but that just wouldn’t balance with my vision.  To capture but a figment of the boundless sublimity of the field of wild flowers I imagined – Bloom had to be vast.  I like to get up close and let it fill my peripheral, I enjoy the complexity of the shadows deep within it. 

Regolith can be defined as a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering the moon.

In making this piece, I used 45,000 pieces of bamboo Q-tips dipped in natural beeswax and covered in graphite to achieve my interpretation of this magical material.

“It’s Complicated’ is a 17.5 x 17.5” paper pulp sculpture.

“Atlas” is a 23” x 24” paper pulp sculpture inspired by aerial images that can be found on websites such as Planet Labs. I wanted the viewer to feel like an observer hovering high above Earth.

In making Atlas, I created and dyed paper pulp and later formed it into my interpretation of an Earth satellite image.

“Maize” is a 14” x 18” minimalist sculpture of overlapping clay that emphasizes its color and pattern in a stacking arrangement.