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The ‘Beauty’ Project Update

I started the 'Beauty' project in 2019 as a series of acrylic paintings dedicated to the message of self acceptance, self love, and possibly a middle finger aimed at the commercialization and exploitation of our society's damaged relationships with our own self-image. The works of art focused mainly on ordinary people with ordinary bodies. You

Art in the Barn 10th Anniversary

It was 2014, I was still working full time as a practical nurse, when I decided to organize my own art show. Having prior taken yoga classes in the barn loft, I knew there was something special about the space. Everyone that sets foot in there can feel it as well. It's calming. It's sacred.

Commission

I've taken a break from figure study for the time being to work on this commission oil. It's similar to one I did in 2020, though not identical (any work created early on in the pandemic was done in a completely different, and extremely intense, frame of mind.) The buyer for this one wanted the

Night Sky

2024 Commission Oil on Wood 36" x 18"

Beauty (Another Look)

This is a repost of a project started before the pandemic in 2019. Through those years our bodies and minds have changed considerably. Our self-depreciation remains, and has actually gotten worse. Mental illnesses and suicide are on the rise in the US and much of these can be linked to a media-driven low self esteem.

Social Media and the Restoration of Reason

Acrylic, 2017 A guy in his truck says vaccines are evil because he read it in a meme on Facebook. Elon is sad today. George POSTED that he's going to burn Gotham to the ground if he's unelected. Outraged mommies are trying to get rid of books they hate and probably haven't even read. Marjorie

Another Oil

Oil on Canvas, 2020 6 x 6in $150 1 1/2 in deep

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Us vs. Them

Long Division, Acrylic, circa 2010 It's been said that a house divided cannot stand. Is anybody else tired of it all? Sign up for my newsletter "The Scribbler" and get deeper insight on my processes as well as information on upcoming events and class offerings.

Remembering Prince

Pencil, charcoal, and accrylic on sheet music (SOLD) Acrylic on sheet music Mixed Media Acrylic on wood panel Linocut print - featured in the 5th Foot in the Door exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Art I started digging Prince way back in the late 1970s, probably 1978, when my sister Patty (rest your sweet

The Door Has Been Opened, No Turning Back Now

Bessie (charcoal), 2009 In the fall of 2009, during a particularly horrid employment situation, the therapist I was seeing wanted me to get closer to my artistic gift in order to deal. So I took a couple of drawing classes at what is now The Artistry in Bloomington, MN, taught by the late Tracie Thompson.

Where it Started

"The Back", pencil, circa 2011 During a particularly toxic workplace experience in 2009, bad enough that I sought professional therapy, and compounded by the sudden illness and loss of my second Boston Terrier, Mickey, my therapist suggested that I get closer to my art in order to deal. So I did. This drawing was actually

Rose

Rose, Acrylic, 2 joined panels, 2017 It was fall of 2017, I'd become seriously ill with a gastrointestinal issue that would require 4 total surgeries when all was said and done. Needless to say, I was in a lot of pain when I painted this one and remember very little about the process. It was

Film Noir

Moment of truth It's been a long, long winter consisting of a lot of snuggling up under layers of blankets and watching old film noir movies while the snow dumps down and the north winds howl.

BWCA Commission

Boudary Waters Sunset, Acrylic Triptych, 2017 In early 2017 I was commissioned by a friend and neighbor to create a painting that would take up a lot of wall space above a bed. I worked from a photo taken by Bill on one of his excursions to the BWCA. It was so big that I

Nina Simone

Linocut, 2023

Gears

Acrylic on press board From 2016, this one is inspired by my friend Sarah's bike, or the old gears from it anyway. She gave me a bag of old gears in case I wanted to make something with them. I used them as patterns to make corrugated cutouts, intending to make a mixed media piece.

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Printing Day

Printed one hundred cards today. Hoping one day each of these will bring a little bit of light to someone's day.

Good Friday

Betrayal Denial Judgement Death Burial In early 2018, while healing and only half way through the surgical process of may illness, Living Joy Lutheran Church commissioned me to do a five piece set of works, based on five readings of scripture, to be featured at the Good Friday service. These are mixed media drawings done