Drawings: Fallen Monarch Series
“A powerful coastal storm in January 2018 toppled a huge, old cottonwood tree on Cape Cod, located in Fort Hill, Eastham—a tree with a history from 1870 that was loved by the local community and referred to, by some, as the ‘fallen monarch.’ It was both visually and historically interesting and I began to work on a project in my studio from sketches and photographs.”
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“Six of the resulting mixed-media drawings in my UPROOTED Series were shown in RE:NATURE, a 2019 exhibit in Beacon, NY at Howland Cultural Center.”
Paintings: The Importance of Trees in Our Environment
“I began incorporating the frottage process of rubbings/relief into my paintings around 2011 and have focused on trees for several years, often creating ‘rubbings’ from the actual bark. To me, trees represent what has sustained us—and the vulnerability that lies ahead. In relief and rubbings, I juxtapose textures of industrial, human-made grids and meshes with organic textures such as tree bark. The contrast of the two creates a tension I see as a metaphor for our current environmental dilemma—human co-existence with the natural world.”
