The Possibility of Fireflies

The Faerie Hill

The Dreaming Tree

Seelie Song

~Let not yourself be an instrument played by many greedy hands. This painting is inspired by my thoughts on faerie music. Those wild compelling melodies that require you to dance, to grow, to change in maybe strange ways. Many folktales tell of the enchanting beauty of faerie song, and the dangers. This painting was done on a cradle wood panel. I really love how you can see the wood grain. Media used includes: collaged book pages, acrylic paint, tissue paper, and snake skin. 14"x18"

While Innocence Slept

~Harboring spring, withing in a heart buried deep. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. 11"x14" Available through penumbra gallery

Innocence and the Forest Beast

Sweet moments, how they pass like summer's sighing.11"x14" acrylic over book pages on canvas.

Her Midnight

~Flush, Flutter, Sigh..... A 6"x8" acrylic painting on stonehenge paper.

Blackberry Night

~Wind sighing through the leaves, secrets whispered upon the breeze. Flickering light, and deepest pollen. I have a secret. Sneaking through tall grass.The clinking of bottles. Will you meet me on Blackberry night? 9"x12" acrylic on paper. Available.

Dark Charlotte

Series: Days Like a Passing Shadow. 8"x10" acrylic and ink on paper. Available.

Heart Seed

~Her heart was meant to grow, as a seed cracking open, as a flower unfolding. Leaf prints from wild mint. Available

Of Earth and Stars Abiding

Inspired by the night sky, stars, and nebula that can look so tiny when gazing up, but when fully realized leave the viewer with a sense of smallness in return. It touches on ideas of bio-luminescence and transformation. She is growing, becoming the sky.

Luminea

~The gentle light of a dreaming star. The third painting in my star series.6.5x8.5" matted to 8x10". available

Softly Nova

This painting is inspired by nova, the beautiful light given off by a dying star. I find it compelling that such stars shine the brightest before they fade. This metaphor is extended to the figure, who's own light is beginning to rival that of the stars around her.

Stepping Sideways

This moment in the woods, I walk as though enchanted. Lead by forest murmurs, and tiny prodding hands, I lose the path behind me. For calling just beyond, an ash tree's heart is beating, and silver leaves are growing, and what I thought were fireflies is dancing fairy light. Acrylic on paper. Available

Goblin Fruit

Series: Days Like a Passing Shadow. 11"x14" Acrylic on paper. available

Once We Were

Series: Days Like a Passing Shadow. 11"x14" acrylic on illustration board.

Petal Pulling Time

For this piece I’ve returned to the setting of Iowa’s rural prairie and landscape. As you may know, prairie restoration is a subject near to my heart. But why was it destroyed in the first place? In this piece I address a few ideas. A main element is the idea of petal pulling. 11"x14" acrylic on paper. Available

A Shiver in the Roots

She is daughter, she is mother, she is earth seeking tendrils of root and vine. She is waking, she is growing she is flower, forest, and bitter wine. Earth is quaking, thoughts are shaking loose. Now there's a shiver in these roots of mine. Inspired by women who dare to dream and grow. Available.

Be the Soil to the Seed

8"x10" acrylic on Stonehenge paper. Available

Queen Red

Of Longing and otherness.

Allegory of Snow White

Rising like Hope

Cicada Song

Ephemera

antique key, cicada wings, and little enchantments

Ephemera 2

Monarch wings, antique key, candles, and magic. mixed media.

The Dusters

The Dusters' Gift

Threads of Hope and Hurting

Pull the thread tight. Sew through sinew and milk skin and light. Be braver than dragons, sing sweeter than sirens. Be strong, for you were meant to make your own wings. Be strong, for the healing hurts. 6"x8" acrylic on Stonehenge paper.