As a visual artist, I work with collage, photography, watercolor, acrylics, fingerpaints, pencils, and pens, and I like to mix media. I’m attracted to light, water, mountains, deserts, trees, flowers, faces, angelic figures, human bodies, symbolic animals, shapes (especially circles, crosses, icons, triptychs, and windows), color, whiteness, blackness, and images that contrast with one another, temporally or proportionally: I like to set medieval images against modern images, and large images of small things (like DNA) against small images of large things (like the Grand Canyon). My art reflects my life as a woman of faith living in a broken world. I’ve made two books of my collage artwork: Sacred Art (2013) and Fairy-Tale (2015).
My original photographs appear in my book of haiku and haibun, Tidepools (Lulu Press, 2009). Some of my paintings have been gathered into two more books: Light (2015) and Lily (2017). As I say in the preface to Sacred Art, the theme of my work is always redemption.
LITURGICAL YEAR SERIES
Advent, Epiphany, Lent, Easter,
Pentecost, Ordinary Time
(collage artwork)
Fall Colors
(photography)
African Skies Series
(acrylics)
View of the Ocean from Rancho Palos Verdes
(photography)
from Light
(finger-paintings)
God of Hope
(mixed media – lead pencil with orange paint / photographed)
from Lily
(paintings)
Purple Emperor Butterfly
(acrylic painting)
View of the Ocean from San Francisco
(photography)
ENGLAND: ANCIENT TO MODERN
Stonehenge, Roman Baths, Whitby Abbey,
Canterbury Cathedral, Kennilworth Castle, London
(photo collage series)
By the Water at Sunset in San Rafael, Calif.
(photography)
AMONG THE RUINS
Tintern Abbey, Castle Chepstow, Fountains Abbey,
Bolton Abbey, Jervaulx Abbey
(photo collage series)
Cloister Gardens, Chester Cathedral, Chester
with “Water of Life” sculpture (Stephen Broadbent, 1994)
(photography)
LONDON GARDENS
View from the Bridge and Duck Island Cottage Garden in St. James’ Park
Italian Gardens and Round Pond in Kensington Gardens
and Courtyard Garden in St. Matthew’s Anglican Guesthouse, Westminster, London
BLUE
(photo collage)
SANCTUARY POET 