The Motherland

Mahadevi ©2024, 14 x 21 watercolor on paper. This work is inspired from my travels near the Bighorn Mountains during an art residency in Dayton, Wyoming. The hills in the area are beautifully shaped and I began to conceive this work as an expression of love for this Mother Earth, as the female essence of all things.

Mahadevi 14 x 21 Watercolor Painting
Mahadevi 13 x 19 Archival Print
Mahadevi 14 x 21 Archival Print

Indigo Dream ©2023, 12 x 16 watercolor on paper on a wood panel. Another from a series inspired by the Black Hills in South Dakota. This is where I go to renew my own sense of connection and direction in life.

Indigo Dream 12 x 16 Archival Print

Salt Rock ©2023, 16 x 12 watercolor on paper on a wood panel. Study for a series on the internal life of rock crystals. The red color is like the earth pigment I harvest for paint.

Salt Rock 16 x 12 Watercolor Painting

Paha Sapa ©2023, 12 x 16 watercolor on paper on a wood panel. In honor of the Lakota sacred earth/sky magic. From a journey to South Dakota.

Paha Sapa 12 x 16 Watercolor Painting

Crazy Horse ©2023, 12 x 16 watercolor on paper on a wood panel. I’m thankful for the living inspiration of the warrior who cannot be photographed, known only through oral accounts.

Redux ©2021, 17 x 21 x 1/2 acrylic on a wood panel. Started in a random way with leftover paint, eventually an image emerged and I thought of fire and water and California.

Redux 16 x 20 Archival Canvas Print

Pillar ©2018, is a 20 x 16 acrylic on a wood panel, artist-framed. The “Light in All Things” gradually emerged in a free-form exploration of adding and subtracting layers using random leftover paint.

Pillar 14 x 11 Archival Print

Lost City ©2018, 28 x 28 pencil, watercolor and acrylic on paper on a wood panel. A collaboration with artist Vanessa Compton. The “Shining City on the Hill”. Inspired by Thomas Moran in New Mexico, and the wisdom of the ancestors.

Lost City 16 x 16 Archival Print

Bighorn III ©1998, 18 x 24 acrylic on canvas. Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, like my second home.

Bighorn III 9 x 12 Archival Print

Bighorn II ©1998, 10 x 14 watercolor on paper. The Bighorns in Wyoming, they help me to get in touch with what is real.

Bighorn II 9 x 12 Archival Print

Grand Canyon ©1995, 12 x 16 watercolor and gouache on paper. There are endless moods at the canyon. This was from a high summer visit.

Grand Canyon 9 x 12 Archival Print
Grand Canyon 12 x 16 /16 x 20 Archival Print

Campfire ©1994, 40 x 22 acrylic on canvas. One of my favorite winter camping spots. There’s nothing like a good teepee fire!

Campfire 40 x 22 Archival Canvas Print

Carlisle Pines ©1992, 10 x 8 oil on a wood panel. Painted quickly in the winter at dusk at “Tall Pines” in Carlisle, a stand of extremely tall old growth White Pine trees.

Carlisle Pines 11 x 8 1/2 Archival Print
Carlisle Pines 12 x 9 Archival Print