Category: Mixed Media

Pandora’s Box

3-D, Exhibitions, Mixed Media

Juried into the Mixed Media Madness Exhibition, this sculpture features a rotating fish and the faint musical sounds of Carmen’s Polka. I had been wanting to create a 3D sculpture for awhile— but for this particular sculpture required a Musical/ Mechanical/ Kinetic Mechanism as well! It was very challenging but fun to create.

50 x 12, Mixed Media, 2020. $800

A Girl For All Seasons

Exhibitions, Figurative, Mixed Media

I constructed this mosaic mirrored painting based on my A Girl For All Seasons calendar, in order to actively engage the viewer. While looking at this piece, the viewer not only sees the art work, but also sees their own self- image reflected back, therefor, in essence, becoming part of the painting. Perhaps the viewer will contemplate what it means to be “A Girl For All Seasons”? This piece is beyond “Pin Up Girl” ideal/ objectification malarkey, rather, it is about what I consider to be the true meaning of “A Girl For All Seasons”… Can you rise to the occasion and be your best, no matter what the circumstances? Do you engage with people and really hear their stories? Do you feel connection and empathy? Are you a spring chicken even though your “spring has sprung”? What do you do over the ‘winter of our (your) discontent’? Can you pull it together during the off season, open season, party season, swimsuit season, giving season, hurricane season, high season, IN season, and for everything that there is a season …?

48 x 54, Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2019. $2000

Pass The Wine, Let’s Make Some Love

Mixed Media, Still Life

6′ x 5′ Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2019. $1000

This is a bronze colored grape leaf with a copy of a fresco from the excavated ruins of Pompeii. Originally, it was a “tapestry” (acrylic on unstretched canvas) that I created for the purpose of beautification and decoration during an Elementary school’s Wine and Dine fundraiser, but it also was an experiment with impasto acrylic products. However, it had been rolled up in storage for many years, where it became damaged… textural impasto doesn’t like to be bent or extreme heat. Anyway, I cut the grape leaf with the Pompeii fresco out, glued it to a wooden substrate and repainted the background. It is entitled, “Pass the Wine, Lets Make Some Love” – This is about cherishing the moment, being truly happy, love, friendship, and counting your blessings because at any moment everything could change…

Mirror Image “Fabulosity Series”

Exhibitions, Mixed Media, Portraits

This project was begun over 10 years ago. It was part of my “Fabulosity Series”, which despite the aplomb and promise suggested by the title,  never really reached fruition… until now! I have finally found the voice to finish much of my work! So Voila! The first of much fabulousness coming your way! Enjoy!

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30 x 30 Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2019. $2000.00. 3rd Place Ribbon at the 2021 Del Mar Fair.



Mnemosyne

Mixed Media, Portraits

I created this painting based on an old photograph that I bought at a thrift store, in fact, I bought the entire family album for $2.00. It dated back to 1912 with really wonderful photographs. This woman went from being a new bride to a grandmother over the course of the pages. I admire her spunk and spirit, so clearly evident, she seems like she was a really wonderful gal. This photograph, in particular, really engaged my interest. It is so very intimate — of a woman sitting in bed, hair undone and shoulder exposed…. It is timeless and beautiful and sad. She is Mnemosyne the Greek goddess of memory.

30″ x 40″, Oil paint and Oil Pastel on Canvas, 2019. $400