Gallery

Creativity and beauty are transformative, empowering and healing. As an artist and an art therapist, I experience and witness the benefits of making and looking at art.

Creating is a spiritual practice. I am inspired by natural landscapes and by the stories, images and symbols of many cultures and times. Images often arrive whole - in a dream, in prayer, in meditation, while outside. I explore how I might bring the vision into form. As I work, the message reveals itself. The cycle is complete when I share my art.

My art incorporates natural materials and discarded manufactured objects. As I collect materials, as I move around outdoors, I hear and see a poignant call for help from the wild world. I am complicit in the ravaging of resources – using paper, pigments, solvents, glitter glue, magic markers.

Fine Art Gallery

Land Art Gallery

Fine Art

Affirmation

2006, Oil on canvas, 48"h x 24"w

Peace Altar

2004, Oil on desk drawer, mixed media, 24” h x 22” w x 11.5” deep

No Fear

2008, Oil pastel on watercolor paper, 22"h x 15"w

Annunciation

2013, gouache, water soluble pencil & crayon, turmeric, sumac on watercolor paper 22”h x 19”w

Infinite Possibilities

2008, Oil on canvas, 31.5"h x 31.5"w

Genocide

2013, Oil on wooden plant stand; turkey vulture feather 12” diameter + 12” feather

Watershed (Ohlone Tears)

2012, Oil, shell, abalone, beeswax, driftwood, 9"h x 21"w

Opening

2020, Water soluble pencil on paper

Yemaya Giving Birth to the Ancestors

2006, Oil on canvas

Pele

2009, Oil on board, 24” h x 18” w

...she reaches her lava fingers deep into the turquoise waves...

Taking Aim

2011, Oil on canvas, 30"h x 40"w

Presence

2011, Colored & water-soluble pencils & crayons, goache & glitter glue on watercolor paper, 22"h x 18"w

Kali

2002, Oil pastel on gessoed watercolor paper, 28"h x 22"w

Dark Goddess

1996, Oil on canvas 46.5”h x 25w”

Spring

2003 Oil pastel 17”h x 13”w

Ceremony

Oil on board. 24”h x 36”w. 2015-2017

Prometheus

revised 2005, Oil pastel on gessoed watercolor paper, 30"h x 22"w

Mountain Crossing

2004, Oil pastel on paper, 17”h x 13.5”w

Created during Meinrad Craighead’s art and ritual retreat, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Creation

2001, Oil pastel on gessoed watercolor paper 22”h x 30” w

Perseverance

1996, Oil on canvas, 21”h x 26”w

Lammas Goddess

1995, Oil on wood desk drawer with hinged “door” 22” h x 19” w x 5” deep

Lammas is a celebration of the harvest, so this Goddess is crowned with an ear of corn. She embraces the cycle of life and death. The white half of her face was originally a white-out stain.

Justice (Blind Side)

1994, Oil on wood doors, 6'5.5" h x 4.5'w

A double-sided, free-standing piece painted on hinged doors. They say that Justice is blind. My Justice can see.

Justice (Sight)

1994, Oil on wood doors 6'5.5" h x 4.5' w

A double-sided, free-standing piece painted on hinged doors. They say that Justice is blind. My Justice can see.

Bulldyke (Wide Open Spaces)

1992, Oil on trunk, sheriff’s badge, bones, squirt gun, boots, 28” h x 26" w x7" deep

Sin

1994-1995, Oil on canvas, 32”h x 56”w in frame 2’8”h x 4’8”w

Inspired by the fortuitous placement of a lipstick print and a piece of pesto pasta on a napkin. A meditation on temptation as well as a play on scale (pun intended).

Land Art

Land Art Day of Northern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, various dates/locations - participant and facilitator.

Sebastopol, 2022.
San Francisco Presidio, 2021.
Middle Harbor Shoreline Park, Oakland, 2021 (facilitated group eco art installation).
Gill Farm Tract, Berkeley 2019.
Pescadero, CA. August 2018 & 2017.
O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. 2016 (facilitated group eco art retreat).

Women’s International Drum Camp, July 2019 and 2018 - invited artist for earth offering.

Loving the Earth: Healing the Planet through Mindful Engagement - invited artist for earth offering.