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The entomological society of America says that there are 10 quintillion insects crawling around our globe. We’ve named only 1 million of the 30 million bug species that exist. It’s unlikely that any other phylum of co-inhabitants of our earth is more numerous or ubiquitous. Insects have been found mating on the snows of Antarctica, flying miles high far out to sea, and in caves deep under the earth.

When I was a girl, I used to spend hours bellied up to the edge of the lawn, watching ants and beetles and earwigs and jumping spiders maneuvering in their world. Those hours changed my perspective. I felt like either I had become small enough to be in their world, or they had grown in size to exist in mine. Raising my eyes, breaking my gaze and looking back into the usual world gave me a shock.

I try to bring the extraordinary diversity of insects into larger life in my paintings. I am interested in providing a bit of that perspective shift, that shock, so that you can come away agreeing that what we often overlook, the tinier inhabitants in the visual spectrum of our world, are worth taking a closer look at.

My latest works are multi-media, combining watercolor insect portraits with vintage buttons and some embroidery.

Mayfly	Green Beetle	Grasshopper with Flowers
Processional Moths	Leip Bya Butterfly Dreams	Pink Beetle
Whirligig Beetle Larvae	Ladybugs	Walking Stick
Dragonflies	Praying Mantis After Hokuba	Yellow Longhorn Beetle
Wandering Glider	Virginia Flower Fly	Spider Hunting Wasp
Titanic Longhorn Beetle	Stink Bug	Redkneed Tarantula
Poplar Beetle	Plant Bug	Leaf Hopper
Jewel Wasp	Hoverbee	Green Swallowtail
Green Carob Beetle	Giant Fungus Beetle	Firefly
Dragon Hunter	Common Blue Butterfly	Blue Spotted Beetle
Bess Beetle

Water and its reflective surface captivates me because it is paradoxically so ordinary and so mysterious. I enjoy painting its many forms and its reflective surface. I like depicting the disorientation of the mix up of below and above on water’s surface. Water’s reflections can be mirror perfect, or through movement, become kaleidoscopic abstracts. Same surface; different moment. Wow.

Star Reflections	Underwater Waterlilies	Abstract Water*
Water Geometry	Autumn Reflections*	Golden Reflections*
Sand Pond 2	Botswana Piranha	Ship
Reflections	Fog on Lake*	Ancient Lake Fish

Painting has taught me to see, to see more, and then to really see what I thought I had already noticed. Although I’ll paint anything that interests me, I often paint the unseen, the invisible elements.

I like to paint the energetic auras surrounding trees and rocks and people. I’ve also been experimenting with painting sound, like birdsong and language and alphabets. The illusions and the unseen act for me as the gateway into the mystery of all that we live amidst.

Creation’s Flow: Alphabet	Birdsong	Flashpoint: When the unseen and the seen are both evident
Blue Forest I*	Blue Forest II

This category includes fog paintings and nebula, and a night bird on a nest painted on crumpled wax paper and gesso, and other experiments and excursions. I’ve recently added the moonflower series, my first experiments adding vintage shell and mother-of-pearl buttons in watercolors.

Moon Flowers 6	Moon Flowers 5	Moon Flowers 4
Houses on a Hill*	Goose On Woman’s Head	Urogram
Empty Room*	Foggy Mountain	Foggy Road
Sierra Abstract I	Sierra Abstract 2	Sierra Obata Homage*
Refinery Fire	Moonflowers 2	Moon Flowers 3
Moon- flowers 1	Dusty Road*	Night Bird
Dark Hedges	Nebula 1	Nebula 2

This is the most playful group of works I have produced. The two robots are made of broken tile mosaics, game pieces, old metal and miscellany.

The Creations Flow and Birds and the Retirement Preserve are a mix of collage over watercolor.

The flip book portrays the dishes on my kitchen cabinet. I used ordinary objects that had significance in my life: buttons, crocheted yarn, paper bags and books and watercolors. This is my homage piece to James Castle and his whimsical use of ordinary materials in a magical way.

Creation’s Flow: Birds*	Retirement Preserve	Dominiobot*
Gameboy