Colorati Pears

Squared Pear

Moon Pear
Pears and Squares

Friends
Solo

Colorata
Family The first in this series was Dr. Beatty's Pear which is now hanging in his office at Swedish Hospital in Seattle. I enjoyed using the colorful pears with their organic shapes and matching them up with the boxes or squares that are not organic given their straight lines and right angles. We are the pears (especially me with my lack of breasts and lower center of gravity) and the boxes represent those man-made things we have to face in life. The boxes are not cleanly drawn, and sometimes they seep into each other. It's not all bad, it's just the minutia of everyday life.

Colorati

Chianti
Rosa

Arancione

Azzuro

Pia Reilly, a Swedish watercolorist that has lived in Petersburg for 20+ years and I are having a two person show at Seaport Gallery starting on November 23rd. It is called "Colorati" which means color in Italian because both of us use lots of color in our art. I did two series of paintings. The first are dog heads using amplified color. They are 24" by 24" squares.

Morning

This is my entry into the women's invitational Collage show held at the Clausen Memorial Museum during the month of November. It is titled 'Morning' and is made of fabric from Melissa Carraway's scraps pile with a background of acrylic paint.