Portraits and Collage series documenting narratives of women living in europe.
Seven Nefertiti's
Intuitive mixed media. An exploration in defining the devine Feminine. Each piece done on recycled wood panels explores our relationship to Mother Nature. Looking to our feminine characteristics, such as empathy, trust and faith.
in 2022 I had to do a 5 year check up after having a full hysterectomy in 2014. It was a stressful two months of exams, ultrasounds, MRI’s and probes to make sure nothing new was growing. I decided to create a group of images that followed my progress, feelings and emotions. It was a moment of art therepy and I decided to call it Body Mapping. By choosing colors that identified my fears and hope, and lines that represented direction and waves of emotions, the image took shape before me. Using Abstract techniques, process and material-based exploration I found I was able to process my fears.
a collection of watercolour paintings where I abstracted the layers that we experience looking into a shallow stream, showing the top, middle and bottom in a flattened perspective. I have a stream beside my house that is surrounded by trees and bushes, a place to stay cool on a hot day. Water brings light and shadow, color and distortion. The movement and patterns created by the plants and rocks above and below the surface add a rhythmic pulse. The bands of colors change as they interact and cross one another.
Concept: Exploring film and documentation, these paintings are being shared on social media while I paint. These paintings are superimposed images of myself and famous black women. I used artists, activists, astronauts, actors, singers, educators. This project is on going and more women will be added.
Concept: A series of paintings exploring movement and color. Inspired by hiking in the Pyrenees mountains around my village I was interested in capturing the vistas looking down into the valleys. The hills are used as pastures, vineyards and small creeks cut through them to create dynamic changes in the typography of the landscape. Through line and color I explored these quick changes in elevation and their relationship with the viewer.
Concept : Developed during the pandemic, participants were asked to submit a selfie. Beginning as a simple drawing portrait study, Selfie Portrait Project grew into a collection of 20 pieces of women (classmates, colleagues, past-students and family) from my past and present, reconnecting to past memories.
Medium : mixed media, A water damaged French copy of A Raisin in the Sun by John Steinbeck, Pen and Ink, Oil Pastel
Concept : A lack of materials during the pandemic lockdown invited the use of other materials food around the house. Using an old water damaged book as a sketch journal, I decided to make a drawing day using models from magazines and still life portraits of objects around the house. Some inspired some paintings in Acrylic and Oil.
Concept : The theme “Vineyard” was presented for a group art exhibition. MI chose to focus on the creation on the wine and being in the south of France, having vineyards in my backyard, I witnessed this process first hand. I had the chance to pick grapes one season and a spectacular discovery is the fun lunch you have after a full morning of picking rows and rows of grapes staining your fingers a beautiful red-purple. Everyone sits down and makes a hearty sandwich on a baguette and a glass of wine from the previous years harvest.
Medium : Linoprint, Pen, Ink, Watercolor, and Oil Paint
Concept : A collection of small prints of local villages and towns. I enjoy using a mixed and unconventional color pallet, placing highly contrasting color, as well as playing with darks and light. I enjoy playing with the shapes and brush strokes that take on an impressionist quality where the viewer steps back and sees the image clearly. I enjoy mixing abstract and realism.
