Tweeds are an installation of related individual forms. The pieces are comprised of an original method I have created with stiffened silk. I produce multitudes of “silk straws” individually colored with dyes. With a beautiful spectrum of colored pieces, I string them into “tweed” like color combinations. I envision each individual colored straw as a brush stroke of paint and because of the array of colors, I can produce a color scheme that makes each piece unique. The works have an overall feeling of texture in the round and when installed as a group, relationships are created between the pieces. The installations are inspired by landscapes, particularly sky and expansive vistas. The installations are unique and the saturated colors enhance people to come closer to investigate.
These oil paintings and collages depict abstracted vessel forms. The vessels are colorful and patterned with painted designs. They seem to appear out of the background that is painted or collaged as another layer in the painting. These pieces are inspired by a continued interest in using the vessel form as a shape in paintings. Vessel forms have always attracted me as subject matter due to their beauty in shape and metaphors for containment of space. These pieces are paintings and collages on paper and canvas. I am working with overlays and simplified forms often first painted and then collaged with beautiful colored papers i have collected from my travels to Japan.
