I have the opportunity to be the Featured Artist at 108 Contemporary for October and November, 2025. The opening is October 3, First Friday, from 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. I would love to see you there. If you can’t make the opening, check out 108 Contemporary for gallery hours.
I’ll also be in the Liggett Studio Object D’Art Holiday Sale November 14 - 16. Liggett Studio is located at 314 S. Kenosha Ave. The opening is November 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Please drop by. It’s a great show with 50 local artists. Support local art and buy unique gifts for the people in your lives.
Artist Statement:
For much of my life, my relationship to the creative process was not easy. In fact, I had a strong belief that I was not artistic. My passion was Nature, life outside the doors. Given the choice of visiting museums or mountains, I would, with very few exceptions, choose mountains, streams, forests.
Through eco-printing, I found a living art. It begins with noticing the plants that make up my ecosystem. This is changing how I walk in the world, how I come to know place. The land becomes intimate with a whole new conversation.
I gather leaves and flowers, both familiar and unknown, then place them on fabric in whatever ways inspire me. The fabric is rolled into bundles and placed into simmering water to steam. Alchemy is next — the mystery and excitement of how the unique language of the plants will express themselves.
Though I had dabbled in eco-printing off and on, something lit up inside of me in a new way, when I came together with women from all parts of the world to study with Irit Duhlman in France. We lived in tents and ate outside. We were a community of women, in Nature, gathering local leaves, and creating art together. The community aspect of these experiences sparked a deeper creative longing in me.
In 2024, I started The Prayer Flag Project as a personal response to what is happening politically, culturally, and to our world. Living without shutting down, with a compassionate heart, had become more of a challenge than I’d known it to be. The project was birthed to remind me that compassionate action is a sustainable way to meet suffering. To date, 76 women have participated in the project.
Alongside these beautiful experiences, I have been face-to-face with the myriad of ways I limit myself. I am finding ways to replace criticism and fear with honest reflection; and I am encouraging myself to play more freely, with wildness and risk. The internal arts, so to speak, have been intrinsically interwoven in the making of physical art. As I meet more of myself with kindness, I am learning how to meet the world. Something new is seeding and taking root.
These are turbulent times. I believe we need each other, beauty, and to dance with true creativity to meet the unknown. Please contact me if you are interested in my work.
Photography by Anitra Lavanhar - (Anitra’s Website)
Harley was a four-legged member of my family who died in May of 2020. Paula Jensen, a close friend who also lived and worked here part-time for ten years, passed in Tulsa in November, 2019 due to cancer. After his death, Harley seemed quite adamant about the story of our lives being told, so he wrote a book (through me) and I narrated it. I wanted to share it with you in case you would like to read it.