PORTFOLIOS are organized into several themed series, each with its own page. (click portfolio title to open.) Read about why I paint animals.
CHIMERA is a collection of fantastical creatures conceived of while
consuming news. 2025-2026
Includes links to: Rounds & Reflections and Slow Draw Rounds 2020-2025
ROUNDS & REFLECTIONS primal celestial reflective. 2020-2024
Includes links to: Medical Collar Series, Slow Draw Rounds, and Crow Series Block Prints and Chimera. 2014-2026
COLOR KNIFE PAINTINGS A portfolio of looser and more colorful paintings born from Covid-19 isolation. 2021-2022
FAMILY PORTRAITS Paintings honoring interspecies kinships and friendships. 2016-2022
DRAWINGS These quick drawings rarely take more than an hour to complete. Most are executed with felt tip acrylic paint pens. 2018-2022
Includes link to: Slow Draw Rounds. 2022-2025
FACES N LIMBS This portfolio focuses on faces (sometimes with extended tongues) or arms and legs. 2018-22
Includes link to: the first Limb Series, and Horses. 2014-2019
ORIGINAL DOG STUDIES The first paintings to come out of my studio after several years absence. c.2008-2014
Includes links to: Cats, Chihuahuas, and Archived Original Dog Studies with a link to Max. c.2007-2017
WHY
I’m a bit introverted and perhaps that’s why I am drawn to animals, nature and art. I can experience them in silence with no awkwardness. They transport a person into the present, relieve stress, and deliver joy.
MODELS
The first models for this body of work were my own four dogs and two cats. After the last of the six passed on, a seventh, Kitten Caboodle, mysteriously appeared… but that’s another story. Since then the model pool has expanded beyond my yard.
MEANING
These portraits are tributes to the profound impact that pets play in our daily lives and are memorials to beloved family members that have passed.
Black and white is not my perspective on life; yet I find it loaded with potential as an artistic mode (and I don’t mean just as metaphor.) While exploring the seemingly dualistic nature of life, the nuance of grey inevitably insinuates itself into the picture. And now color…
VISUALS
The simplified pallet of black and white asserts the elegance of the animal form. The intimate views isolate familiar (and sometimes quirky) shapes, while the spaces are energized by character and memory. But things are changing, and I don’t have words for that yet.
TODAY
My Husband and I are taking a break from large scale pet rearing and so now I paint the pets of others. Perhaps yours