Can't wait to begin creating some new panels with rabbit skin glue and homemade gesso.  Summer is a good time to work more exclusively on this process. 

I have been working on some new paintings that integrate nature once more and how humans have that connection with it.  I have also been assembling artists for the Nature and Narrative egg tempera show at Attleboro Art Museum next April 2019.  It will contain an impressive artist cast!

Enjoy the quest

I think I enjoy the quest, to keep searching for the visual language which is like poetry for me.  I love the colors, the interconnection of lines, and most of all, the investigation of nature, whether it is from the natural world or the human one.  I get excited some days when I begin stumbling upon a new revelation, another way of expressing myself through the medium of paint.  I love when I can just fall into the moments of being, just lost in the process.  I want to keep exploring and is that not what creation is all about?

Another Icon

 

 

 

"Drought," egg tempera, gold leaf.  I am forever connecting nature to my life.  Having grown up in a rural area, I still want to preserve the land.

Icons

 

 

From the Icon Series:  "Housefly," egg tempera, 12" x 20"

 

"Nest," 9" x 14", egg tempera, private collection

Work in Progress

 

 

This is how it begins:  "Hannah with the Blue Hair," 5" x7", egg tempera.

  Building up thin layers with lines and glazing. 

Silverpoint: Art Imitating Life

"Sticks & Stones," silverpoint on panel, 8" x 8"  (Hands of my daughter and son)

 

 

Diptych: "Through the Grapevine," silverpoint, each panel 8" x 8".  Connecting nature with human nature.

A painting of my wonderful model, Meg.

"How Sweet the Air,"  egg tempera, mixed leaf, 8" x 8".  I wanted to convey the sense of air and breath mingling together.