Portfolio

 "Around The Corner" is a mixed media piece of an  iconic street in New York's Greenwich Village. I moved to the city after college and fell in love with this street and its magical atmosphere promising multilayered adventure. 

Materials:  acrylic and oil paint, print, collage. 24" x 30" 

This Japanese Maple lived on my patio for a few years  then slowly faded away. Perching on the stems, grasping leaves, one can see little twig people. I became aware of twig people from an unrelated Facebook Post after doing this piece! 

Materials:  Ink on clayboard. 11" x 14".   

The Path emerging from the woods is deliberately geometric. Perspective is skewed but still works.  

Carved collage painted with printers ink forms branches of trees obscuring a city scape behind it. Are those trees in the distance or smokestacks?

Materials:  Acrylic and oil paint, paper collage, ink. 

29" x 30 " 

Grandparents - mine. Throughout the piece are symbols from Eastern Europe and their personal lives - woven through my grandmother's hair are the names of her 8 children. I also expanded the symbols to include icons of life in the new world.

Materials:  Pen and Ink on Bristol.  20" x 20".

People busily wait for the boat to take them to Channel Islands off the coast of Ventura. I loved the energy of anticipation of adventure. Everyone is engaged with the moment - had to paint it!  

Materials:  Acrylic, Gauche, Collage.  8" x 10". 

Woman in shorts is a student piece. Though I enjoyed the figure drawing, I think I became too enamored with the fabric. I still love its molten quality spilling over the edge of the tilted table.

Materials:  Pastel on paper. 20"x 26".
 

Prep sketch in pencil on Bristol for a commissioned Triptych painting of the colorful and charming harbor town, Portofino, in Italy.  

See the contact page for the Portofino painting in process of being painted.  ;+) 

Portofino - the commissioned Triptych I enjoyed painting for its oddities like the Christmas tree at the edge of the water.  Colorful and moody, the scene hangs onto a somber note of winter yet leans toward spring.

Materials:  Acrylic on canvas - 36"x72"