Art has always been a part of my life. Over five decades, my art work has been selected for numerous art shows and festivals. I have worked in many media including: oil paints and oil bars, watercolor, pencil (watercolor and graphite), printing, pastels (hard and soft), pen and ink. In my art work, I often use a mix of media.
In the past, I made many of the images while sitting on the side of trails waiting for my energetic spouse to return from his hikes.
Over several years, my chronic fatigue/fibromyalgia flareups has become more frequent and severe. Now, the fibromyalgia severely restricts my energy and mobility. I stopped using media that would drop onto my face while I recline.
I spend many hours looking through my windows. From this vantage point, I make black ink drawings on a variety of archival papers. The pen marks make for a variety of simplified, strong, focused stokes. I don't sketch any of my images; they appear as I draw. They are spontaneous and intuitive.
I incorporate my black ink drawings with my poetry. These have been published in literary journals:
Wordgathering,
Cleaning Up Glitter,
Kaleidoscope,
Life Lines Literary Journal
Parentheses and
Monstering Literary Journal
Art background:
I studied at the:
University of Utah (watercolor scholarship),
University of Washington (drawing; printing certificate)
Gage Academy & Pratt Fine Art Center
(still life drawing, life drawing, pastels and creative printing).
My art was chosen for these shows:
Mount Baker Neighborhood Art Center's Inaugural Exhibit, Trees in All Their Glory - "Quinault" (mixed media: oil pastel & hard pastel, pen & ink, markers, watercolor pencil)
artEast's Northwest Grand Landscape Exhibit - "Mid-summer Tide" (soft pastel)
artEast's Retail Store Show, Falling - "Fall Leaves" (digital image)
Edmonds Art Festival Juried Gallery - "Sunlight" (pen & ink accented with watercolor pencil)
Edmonds Art Festival Juried Gallery - "7pm" (mono print, 2nd place)
Anacortes Juried Show, Art at the Port - "7pm" (mono print)