"The painting arrived. I am in awe. Thank you for sharing your gift, emotions and artistry!! I am overwhelmed with joy!!" ~ Judy Bitterli

Explore my Work

My work typically has something of a backstory. Here are some of my personal favorites and the stories of how they came to be.

A lyrical painting in purples and yellows in a bright light room.

A painting in soft shades of purple and ochre against a warm white wall.

An abstract landscape hinting at a lake, trees in the foreground, and hills in the distance.

Imagine an abstract dancing figure executed in black lines against a yellow and purple background.

Dancing (sold) burst forth while I was processing a dear friend's breast cancer diagnosis. She and I privately named it Dancing in Defiance of the Beast. Reluctant at the time to share fully the emotion and fear of those stark moments, I shortened the name when it made its debut into the world.

Dancing, 15x22" 2025

Executed in blues, white, and pinks, this lyrical painting suggests exuberant movement.

Ocean Life evolved through several iterations. Each arose, and seemed lacking in some way. I persevered, confident that if I kept working, the work would eventually become resolved. I was also confident that each layer added interest as the history of the piece was laid down, covered, and then revealed in bits and pieces and glimpses in later stages. When the image finally came together, it fell into place with ease and began to speak to me of the teeming life hidden just beneath the mirrored surface of water.

Ocean Life, 24x30", 2025

This painting is done in yellow and shades of maroon with strong black marks and lavender highlights

Make a Love New, 24x30", 2025.

While working on the painting that became, Make a Love New, I encountered the poem, Homestead, by Justin Carter. The title is a line from the poem. A line that captured my imagination and became my mantra during the hours in the studio finishing the painting. What a world we might make if we turned our attention to continually making love new - vibrant and at the forefront - across all our connections - personal, familial, and societal!

Stong black marks stand out against a cream background and warm red shapes.

Symphony, 16x20", 2025

As I completed Dancing I was settling into a new medium, a medium that felt like arriving home after a long absence. Symphony (sold) was my first full scale, successful oil and cold wax painting. It's now in the collection of one of my staunchest supporters. It pleases me immensely to know that she enjoys it daily.

A hint of writing systems dominates the desaturated blues and oranges of this work.

Rosetta Stone, 24x30", 2025.

Rosetta Stone is a work of layers, and many of the layers have writing of some form - writing that is not meant to be read straight forwardly. As the layers developed, I began to think of the work as a sort of interpretive key. If one could decipher the layers, meanings would emerge and be clarified. I would be translated and become known. The title is perhaps a misnomer, however. These writings are destined to be a mystery forever, arising as they do from some primal, non-verbal core of my being. One may glimpse a meaning, but it remains just beyond the grasp.

Rosetta Stone was selected by juror, Joan Fullerton, to be included in The Abstract National Exhibition at Mark Arts in Wichita, KS, Jan. 9, 2026 - Mar. 11, 2026.

Birth of My Star, 24x30", 2025

A whorling vortex anchors this abstract work of yellows and reds.

Birth of My Star (sold) refers to a moment in time, a moment when something that had long confounded me slipped into place and became clear; the moment when I gained clarity and confidence in my own unique creative voice. In the end, what I had labored over was simple. I only have to lean into what makes my heart sing and my unique voice emerges naturally. Finding my voice is not an intellectual pursuit, it’s a letting go. And in the letting go, in the choosing, fiercely and without fail, what has meaning for me, my star shines forth.

The upper two thirds of this painting is light filled, bleeding into darker layers of red and ochre.

Sedimentary, 24x30", 2025.

There is a quote from Lao Tzu regarding having the patience to wait for the mud to settle and the water to clear. At 72, I've had plenty of opportunity to practice that patience. Age carries blessings, however. It becomes easier to find grace amidst the turmoil of the mud and the water runs clear, sparkling with the dappled colors of reflected sunlight. My sediments settle into the pattern of a life lived.

Exuberantly excited in bright red and soft blue, this painting reaches upward.

Heading Towards Eternity, 20x24", 2025.

Heading Towards Eternity is inspired by the song, The Pearl, by Emmylou Harris. I can listen to the song repeatedly without tiring of it, and I do. It lifts and inspires me on a deeply intuitive level. It soars and I soar with it. The lyrics echoed in my mind as I completed this piece. I wanted to depict the journey we all ultimately take boldly and energetically, as a positive movement towards complete release and true freedom.

I once read that artists fall into two camps, those that act as mirrors and those that act as windows (John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows : American Photography since 1960). Am I a mirror reflecting a portrait of the artist who made the work, or a window, through which one might better know the world? I am decidedly a mirror. My work is intuitive, it is a striving to find the essence, to say the nonverbal, to plumb myself. My works are excavations of my being. As you view them, it is my hope that you find a powerful connection to your own truth.

Having browsed my work, you may be curious to know my personal story. I was not always an artist. In fact, my journey to becoming the artist I am today was a long, and sometimes painful one. You can read about the arc of my life here. You can learn more about the twists and turns of my creative journey here.