They say that "plant lady is the new cat lady" but the secret is: you can actually have it all. Sometimes I paint my own beautiful cats with their plants; sometimes people pay me to paint theirs.
Gouache, acrylic, water soluble crayon on silkscreen
A portrait of the plant life inhabiting a favorite tiny world, ruled by a realistic (but plastic) tiger. This was the first terrarium I made that truly started to thrive, and the first I captured in paint.
Watercolor, gouache and ink
A study of a beautiful green microcosmos, my most prized (and happy) terrarium. We're currently battling mealybugs together, but a painting serves as a decent insurance policy if alcohol and neem oil don't conquer.
Watercolor and gouache
A sketchbook study of the beautiful fernery at the beautiful Morris arboretum.
Watercolor on paper
I love working though the densely layered shapes and lush colors of the terrariums and forests and ferneries that surround me. Silkscreen is a favorite medium of mine, and my recent work aims to create textured, painterly pieces that contrast with what one might normally expect from this medium of printmaking.
12-color silkscreen on Rives BFK
Lovely glass containers filled with plants and tiny figurines, terrariums are tiny worlds that can reflect massive jungles. It's impossible not to get drawn in. Silkscreen is a favorite medium of mine, and my recent work aims to create textured, painterly pieces that contrast with what one might normally expect from this medium of printmaking.
12-color silkscreen on Rives BFK
A portrait of the handsome Finn in his natural habitat. Silkscreen is a favorite medium of mine, and this was one the first pieces where I really experimented with working in a more painterly way.
6-color silkscreen on Rives BFK
A Wabi-Sabi World journeys through a wondrous slice of heaven—an animal sanctuary—where perfection is joyously discovered in imperfection. Within these pages, the serenity is palpable—the simple yet powerful poem draws you into a realm where all life is not only respected but celebrated. Not only will you meet some of the sanctuaries shining lights, but you’ll also learn how they came to call it home and realize the choices we make every day can affect the lives of so many others in this web of a world of ours.
Proceeds go towards supporting the work of the Chenoa Manor Animal Sanctuary & Learning Center.
Portraits of the place I've come to love, living here this past not-quite-a-decade: Fishtown, Philadelphia.
Acrylic on paper
A way of reminiscing about the place I was born and raised, where I still visit and still kind-of love. There's also one of lovely Pittsburgh in autumn, because that's in the neighborhood.
Acrylic on paper
An attempt to recount+process 6 months spent in this Scottish city, the summer I returned to the US.
Acrylic on paper
I've always loved the look of shadows - the way they obscure form and pattern, and create a completely new scene that is both layered and flat. Inversely, I've always been interested in the idea of shadows. Sometimes a shadow is more authentic than that which casts it.
Acrylic on paper
Once upon a time I was panning to paint every breed of chicken listed on
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/poultry/chickens/. Then I got through "c" and got tired of chicken watercolors. But it inspired my father to buy me www.chickenprints.com, so there's that.
Watercolor on cold press paper
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Watercolor on cold press
This was an interactive project that married the unlikely couple of plate lithography and the Internet. Drawn and printed at the Glasgow School of Art, each 4" x 6" print was made into a postcard. I created a corresponding website where participants could pay $1 and supply text and a mailing address. I then lovingly wrote and mailed each postcard out.
Postcards depict scenes from my travels while living in Scotland - scenery of the Highlands, Oban, the Isle of Skye, Glasgow, London, and Ballyvaughan in Ireland.
Created from a series of powdered graphite studies of places that don't exist anymore, the 11" x 15" lithograph is actually a set of 7 cut-out postcards. But where do you send postcards from, if the places they feature no longer exist?
Powdered graphite on Rives BFK
2-sided photo lithography
