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A Place in Her Landscape:  Human Nature and Mother Nature (in progress)
Montypes and paintings combining figures with plant material and symbols explore the relationship between humans and the natural world.


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Season
Layering images--fields of color, 3-D objects, and stencils--to create a specific time or season.
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A Quiet Life/Jewelled Waters
A year-long exploration of the natural world through small, quick oil sketches on paper.  Jewelled Waters is a series of paintings that anticipate what a jewel might look like as it falls through water.
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Sirens
Psychological landscapes illustrate what goes on inside our heads behind the masks we all wear, hiding pain, truth and emotion.
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13 Blackbirds
Large paintings made with roof tar, interpretations of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens, each verse a metaphor for human experience.
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Underfoot
Homage to the forest floor and the leaves and lizards seldom seen beneath our feet.
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Drawings
Work on paper using pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, even some oil paint.
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