A Sampling of My Recent Artworks

At last, I can offer you a virtual gallery of my artworks. Most of the pieces in my online gallery were created over the past year, but I've included a few older favorites as well.

Since last summer, I've turned my focus back toward my lifelong love of creating art and away from words. Of course, I still love delicious writing and I feel sad not to have kept up my blog, but rather than turn my thoughts and energies outward to share with others, I've been turning them inward, asking myself big questions, and expressing my visions, thoughts and hopes with imagery rather than text.

While I still enjoy drawing and doing detailed watercolors, I've recently delighted in branching out into assemblages and working with three-dimensional forms displayed on canvas. It's fun to tweak the idea that art on canvas is more valuable, more genuine, or finer art than works created on paper or other arts often considered to be lesser pieces because they come from the world of handicraft rather than from the fine arts universe.

I enjoy the way balance and negative space become so important in assemblage and collage. My delight in assembling these little pieces is an outgrowth of my love for creating small, intimate artworks and crafts pieces that invite the viewer to get close and share the physical space in which the artwork is displayed. In the past I made a lot of jewelry because I enjoyed the idea of wearable art that the wearer could play with, notice and handle more than pieces that hang on walls or sit on mantels. Jewelry becomes part of the owner's personal physical space. Whatever media I use, I always want my works to be like little jewels: portable, personal, intricate and intimate.