As I have evolved in landscape painting, I find myself wanting to convey a mood or atmosphere in the landscape. It’s a sense of a space but not about a particular space, although images of particular moments in a specific place may come to mind as I work. But the end result is a feeling of a moment in time in space. Drawing on my background as a psychotherapist, the work reflects an emotive inner landscape.

Living in the western North Carolina mountains, I am surrounded by trees. On our property, I have developed an affinity bordering on a personal relationship with individual trees. I feel held and contained by them. In reading and viewing The Intelligent Life of Trees, I learned about the interconnectedness and relationship among trees that validated my intuitive experience living with them. I am honored to share their presence on planet earth. As an abstract painter, I have become fascinated with the rhythm of trees.

I am blessed to spend half my year in the natural beauty of the western North Carolina mountains. I have enjoyed playing with abstract landscapes that have a sense of place without specifying place. They are psychological landscapes with often a surreal element.

While much of my work is autobiographical, the Rock and Bones series became explicit. Following a recent major spine surgery in which the successful outcome depended on my body’s production of bone around the site, I became overtly fascinated in my work with rock and bone formations that acquire surreal forms.

oil and cold wax on cradled panels, 3 @ 24×18

oil and encaustic on cradled panel, 30×24

oil on cradled panel, 20×24

oil and cold wax on cradled panel, 16×20

oil and cold wax on cradled panel, 24×30

oil and cold wax on cradled panel, 24×18

oil and cold wax on cradled panel, 16×16

oil and cold wax on cradled panel, 16×16

oil on cradled panels, 4 @ 12×12

oil and cold wax on cradled panels

2@24x30. framed 2@25x31

oil on linen

2022, 24x18, 26x20 fr

oil and cold wax on birch panel

2022, 20x16, 22x18 fr

oil on linen

2022, 18x24, 20x26 fr

oil on birch panel

2022, 24x30

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

18x24, framed 19x25

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

18x24, framed 19x25

oil and cold wax on linen

20x16 fr 22x18

oil on linen

20x16 fr 22x18

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 25x31

oil and cold wax on cradled panels

30x48, framed 31x50

oil and cold wax mixed media on cradled panels

2@ 24 x 18, framed 2@ 26x20

oil and cold wax on cradled panels

2@ 24 x 18, framed 2@26 x 20

oil and cold wax on birch panel

16x20 fr 18x22

oil on linen

2022, 18x24, 20x26 fr

oil on linen

18x24 fr 20x26

oil and cold wax mixed media, 16x20, framed 18x22

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

16x20, framed 18x22

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x36, framed 26x38

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax on cradled wood panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32

oil and cold wax mixed media on cradled panel, 36x24, framed 38x26

oil and cold wax mixed media, 16x20, framed 18x22

Won 1st place in Encaustic Art Institute New Beginnings, Santa Fe, NM

oil and cold wax mixed media on cradled panel, 16x20, framed 18x22

oil/ pastel/ cold wax on cradled panel, 30x24, framed 32x26

oil and cold wax mixed media on cradled panel

24x30, framed 26x32