Wild Flower Collage Works

Current College works. All textured paper is created by printing local wildflowers and using natural dyes including dirt and plants.

Dreaming of Blaxit

current series 2023

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. 

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My Body Holds Secrets

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.

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Stream Series

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.

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Artwork 2022

Title: Faces 2022

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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.

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Artwork 2021

Title: Mountain Series, 2020-2021

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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.

2021

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2020

Title: Selfie Portrait Project, 2020

Medium : Oil On Canvas

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.

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2020

Title: Raisin in LOCKDOWN

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.

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2019

Title: Vineyard Project

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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.

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