Garden at Midnight

Garden is a series of large-scale mixed media paintings -- 7 finished or in-progress -- which explores the relationship of “heaven and earth”. Seen through various mythic figures and stories these paintings present a visual mythological history that is also personal, poetic, and spiritual.  The style of this series draws on vernacular architecture and decoration from the Hindu and Mexica cultures among others, a kind of free-form compendium of related mythic styles, along with personally derived symbolic landscape and decorative elements. 4 paintings + 1 with detail views of an in-progress painting. CLICK to view ALL.

Hem of Her Skirt

Hem is an on-going group of linked small panels that are devotional paintings which grew from improvisational extracts drawn from the Garden at Midnight series.  The Hem paintings are obsessively rendered with plastic gems, faux half-pearls, and porcelain roses that are used to signify the kind of repetition and implied counting that is a part of saying mantras or praying with prayer beads. 2 wall-sized groups + 5 smaller groups shown here. CLICK to view ALL.