The interactions of fish truly are a dance. These two yellow butterfly koi crossed at a perfect moment, surrounded by bright red goldfish and another koi below. Deep shadows, detailed scales that catch the light, and a sense of calm are the hallmarks of this dynamic piece.
Ready to hang, with or without a frame, this piece features painted edges that wrap the shadows and red fish around the canvas frame.
Pricing Information: $2100 USD
I’ve wanted to paint the breathtaking blooms of the yucca plant in our yard for years. And I’m so happy with how this turned out! A moment in time, focused by the round format. The circle itself is constructed from old scratched music CDs, adhered together, paper mached, and then gesso-ed and sealed for painting oil. Within this round painting, there is literally music and a new purpose.
Note, this is a small piece, the size of a music CD: about 4.75 inches in diameter.
Pricing Information: $175
Light dancing through the clouds at the edges of the day, inviting our minds into less heavy places. This is a delicately painted oil piece, and uses a circle to guide our eyes upward. The circle itself is constructed from old scratched music CDs, adhered together, paper mached, and then gesso-ed and sealed for painting oil. Within this round painting, there is literally music and a new purpose.
Note, this is a small piece, the size of a music CD: about 4.75 inches in diameter.
Pricing Information: $125 USD
This is a tiny painting, a desert jewel to behold. At 4.75 inches tall, it was painted from life as the sun was setting on a hot day, and is a testament to the hardiness prickly pear cacti common to SoCal. The sides are .75 inch wide and painted gold, so you can display with or without a frame.
Pricing Information: $85
Trees Are Treasure. Loquats are symbolic of wealth and luck, and I feel both of these when I see how generously our loquat trees share their gifts. If you’ve never seen a loquat, its all good – I hadn’t seen one until we discovered them in the yard!
This painting exudes gold, both in the silhouettes of leaves on the frame and in richly textured paint on the fruits. I wanted this piece to invite a three-dimensional pop, as if we are looking through the leaves in real life. Here is a video that shows some of the fruit details and gold shimmer.
Pricing Information: $1200 USD
And another view, from an angle:
I created a large paper mache heart as part of a costume, and wanted to make miniature hearts to accompany it. This limited run of clay hearts is the result. There are six hearts, each completely unique and made from upcycled electric wiring and clay. These necklaces are about resilience, healing, and strength.
There are two options for the necklace chains, although you can also remove the heart charm and put it on any necklace of your own that you like. The options I offer are rose-gold chain or an iron-gray chain, both shown below.
Pricing Information: $55 USD each
These little bees are royalty. Handcrafted from scratch and sporting tiny crowns, they each rest on a beautiful stand featuring a shimmering paper mache flower. There are four unique royal ladies, as shown below. The bees are made from cut plastic container lids, old guitar strings, velcro and glue. Their stands are made from tiny software installation CDs paper-mached into a round, and the flowers have second-hand crafting balls and beads inside them. Regal through and through, each is named after a powerful gemstone.
Pricing Information: $60 USD each
A southern California view, painted on five tiny canvases, the original “Solstice” piece was a labor of love and nearly impossible to frame. A dear friend bought the piece, and hearing that this view is beloved to so many friends in the Inland Empire, I wanted to make prints of it. I wanted each of those prints to also be special.
I photographed, edited and worked with a printer to ensure each of the five mini-paintings are near-identical to the originals. Then I adhered them to wood panels and created a canvas framing for the prints. Each piece of wood is unique, and each canvas framing on the wood is painted different. So yes, the mountain view is a print, but the setting of the print is original. This is a very limited series as I am only selling four of these. Shown is the “black and stars” painted setting, but the others are a blue-sky setting, a blue-to-black fade, and a brown setting. Wired and ready for your wall.
Pricing Information: $200 USD
A little gem of a painting, featuring air, water, and life. Two palm trees reflect in a pool, where under the rippling water we see a koi fish. A lot of movement and glimmer in a small piece, the detail and looseness are balanced to draw you in as if you were standing right at the edge of this pond.
Pricing Information: $140 USD
This piece is a three-dimensional trick of the eye, featuring gloriously painted moon poppies wavering in the wind as a handcrafted sphinx moth explores one. The flowers are painted in oil and from life. The moth is completely crafted from scratch from upcycled materials – plastic lids cut to make the wing shape, old guitar strings for the legs, and the body molded from glue to support them. When people see this piece, they ask if the moth is real. Definitely a real moth spirit, but no moths injured in the making! It comes framed as shown, the frame is an espresso brown and has a subtle sheen as well.
Pricing Information: $215 USD
A window looks out onto the full moon, and a shimmering sphinx moth also gazes. This three-dimensional piece features a brilliant night sky and painted brick wall in oil, and a handmade mixed-media moth that sits on the surface, lifelike. The moth is completely crafted from scratch from upcycled materials – plastic lids cut to make the wing shape, old guitar strings for the legs, and the body molded from glue to support them. If you are fascinated by moths, this piece is like living with a real one. It comes framed as shown, the frame is an espresso brown and has a subtle sheen as well.
Pricing Information: $250 USD
For cat lovers, dealing with the litterbox is a fact of life. This light-hearted piece features kitties at their best, composing music and making art! Created by adhering a litter deodorizer box label to a wood panel and then adding delicate painted details, this piece transforms the mundane into a “litter-al” art part. Double-duty refers to not only the “freshen and deodorizing” aspect but also to the color-wheel/circle of fifths in the center of the piece. This wheel can be used for composing music or color plans for art. The two kitties in the piece embody that creative spirit at work.
Pricing Information: $150 USD
If you know, you know: kitties love Churu treats, and this piece is a playful take on the packaging. Integrating the actual front packaging of a churu box, I then reverse-painted an underwater scene on the plastic front panel. The kitties hold on to dear life riding the back of an orca, as they face off with a hungry squid in a surreal reversal of roles.
Pricing Information: $150 USD
A moody sky is broken by a rainbow and Nerds. Inspired by the colorful list of dyes in the candies, this piece balances subtle shimmery rainbow hues, a dusky feel, and a sense of humor. The ingredients list of a Nerds candy box and the Nerds characters are adhered to the panel, and then a glorious carefully painted skyscape is added to complete the story.
Pricing Information: $160 USD
Start your day with not only a nutritious breakfast, but a coastal landscape and a heart-healthy hug. Part of a series integrating packaging with precise oil painting, this piece uses a Raisin Bran box as a background to a west coast sunrise. Delicately painted poppies weave through a rockscape of bran flakes, with waves crashing and two scoops of love.
Pricing Information: $150 USD
Featuring the scrumptious loquats that grow on our tree, this little piece is a lighthearted mix of a fancy textured oil painting and the advertising on a LaCroix box. I adhered the label of a LaCroix package to a 6×6 panel, and then painted onto the front and sides to create a design that lets a little of the label show through. But the star of the show are the fruits!
Pricing Information: $150 USD
We are connected to both the tides and the flames. Water, fire, sun and moon – these are powerful symbols of energy and seasons. This piece centers a woman – a cat – in the center of balance. She is as comfortable in the ocean as amid the heat. Her hair becomes both wave and fiery tendril.
She plays an electric guitar with an aggressive flourish, the way an excited teenager might. Perhaps you can hear the sound? This piece features thick layers of paint in places, a build up of a metallic acrylic underpainting, and then lush oil brushwork on top. The sides are also painted. A detail view of both are shown below.
Price: $375 USD
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of man’s mind.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
This piece incorporates a variety of items in a print-making way. Seeds, eggshells, cooked spaghetti, and various machine parts were used to make impressions on the glass. Transitioning from the visceral bright red to the cool blue tones, we have the interface of living things that will fairly soon rot, versus entities that may never decompose but are – at this point in time – non-living.
Reverse-painted words echo after the title, “Artificial”. Thus, “Artificial Imminence”, Artificial Insolence”, and so forth. I feel most of humanity’s problems (especially the ones for which large tech companies purport AI to be the solution) remain unsolved not due to a lack of intelligence, but a lack of love. Specifically, the love that respects another culture’s perspective and considers the needs of other plant and animal species with whom we share this world.
The sides of this piece are also painted, and it is ready to hang as the frame is an integral part of the painting.
Price: $700 USD
This piece made its debut at the 2024 National Orange Show. It dovetails with a larger, more formal piece called “Citrus Paradisi“, because we cannot have a citrus-themed show without including the invasive fruit flies that have ravaged Southern California this year.
Redlands was in a fruit quarantine zone where many residents had their fruit picked and destroyed by the county. A small price for slowing the spread of an invasive fly that cripples crops statewide, but still traumatic for locals who love their trees and may not have directly seen the fly on their properties.
The perspective of the piece is that we are within a glass cell with several of the flies. They walk on the window, looking through it to a citrus tree beyond. The flies are made with upcycled plastic, old guitar strings, glue, and acrylic paint. Although a threat in real life, they are quite charismatic as miniature sculptures on this work.
Pricing Information: $300
There were three guiding principles in creating this painting. First, that my love for this particular tree would be apparent in every brush stroke. Second, that the piece be a true study in edges, with sharp and soft edges leading the viewer through the piece. And third, that it would adhere to our local Spring light schema, conveying a subtle warmth in the daytime air laden with the smell of blossoms.
I was surprised that painting hundreds of leaves was not onerous. They each had a personality, tone, tilt, and softness or sharpness of edge. Understanding the architecture of the leaves was key. Painting the grapefruit – “citrus paradisi” in Latin – at the end was an exercise in restraint. Instead of making the fruit the subject, I wanted to trick the eye to look past it and into the blossoms just beyond.
This was a thoroughly enjoyable piece to create. I’m honored it was awarded in the Orange Show.
Price: $2200
