2025

Paintings for a card game featured in Heart the Lover, a novel by Lily King.

In early spring I was asked by Lily and her husband Tyler to make eighteen images for a card game which features in Lily’s novel by the same name. It was a really fun commission. The only directions were make it “fun and colorful”. I loved painting the characters which make up the different families/suits. The game is based on a board game from 1909 named “Sir Hinkle Funny-Duster”. The game emphasizes politeness in how you ask for cards to build your family. Each family has a King, Queen, Eldest son, ten children, nine servants, a donkey, a parrot, twins and a baby. Once you collect all the cards of one suit, you win. I wanted to make the characters animals instead of people because that seemed more unexpected and fun. Although the game seems sweet, it can get a little cut-throat! It requires not only politeness but a good memory too.

2025

summer paintings

2024-2025

Tablescapes

I am grateful to live in a place with fertile soil near an ocean full of fish. These paintings honor the abundance of food in my life and in our country. I do not take it for granted.

2024, 2025

Snakes of Maine

I am afraid of snakes, but I don’t want to be afraid of anything, so I decided the best way to start facing my fear would be to paint them. Based on a recent encounter with a DeKay’s brown snake, I think it’s starting to work.

2023-24

Butterflies and Moths

Summer 2023

Plants and animals in urns

Spring 2023

Flowers in vases series 2 and butterflies

Winter 2022-23

Vases of “my favorite foods” series

A series of my favorite foods in vase form with flowers and herbs. This is an ongoing series because I have many favorite foods to keep painting.

Miscellaneous painting

2022-present

Summer 2022

Portland, Maine series

After the huge life change of moving from Chicago, IL to Portland, Maine in the summer of 2022, I jumped back in to making art with a series of paintings about what I saw and liked around me, sort of a visual diary. All paintings are acrylic and are either on paper or on canvas. Painted in 2022.

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2021

Flowers in Vases Series

Acrylics on vintage embroidered fabrics sewn together and stretched over canvas. Each painting in this series also has a potato print either in the background or on the surface the vase is on. Potato prints were one of the first kinds of mark making I did as a kid at our kitchen table when I was growing up. I wanted to have that element of quickness and joy in each of these paintings.

2015

A series on scent, perfume and perfume bottles. Acrylic on canvas.

2013-2019

Abstract paintings. Acrylic on canvas.