Dazzling Dhalias

"Dazzling Dhalias" 
9" x 14" 
White line woodcut (Provincetown style) 

I made this to enter in a poster contest for the 15th Annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival at The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts. The winner of that contest ended up being Shannon Woodford. I haven't seen her winning painting yet, but I can't wait since I checked out her work on her website and her paintings of flowers are strikingly beautiful. 

Even though I didn't win, I enjoyed having the opportunity to make a white line woodcut of flowers that have natural gradations of bright colors. Since I don't have a lot of free time for lengthy art making processes like white line woodcuts, I have to find excuses to make the time to do them. The wooden bridge in the background in a landmark at The Bascom. 

Giant Butterfly at "Bees, Butterflies, and Blooms: A Pollinator Paradise"

 

My giant butterfly is about to be displayed at Bees, Butterflies, and Blooms: A Pollinator Paradise hat the Morris Arboretum! My butterfly, "Flowers and Fruits", will be one of ten found integrated into a new field of plants planted especially for pollinators. For my butterfly, I made linocuts, hand colored with acrylic paint. On one side of the butterfly are seeded fruits and vegetables common to this region, and on the other side are their corresponding flowers. 

The center body of my butterfly features drawings of seeded fruits and vegetables drawn by my 2nd Grade students at Community Partnership School. During science class they learned about pollinators, and then in art class I had them make little butterfly puppets with relief printed wings. 

The exhibition will include events such as guided tours and workshops. If you're in Philly, you can check it out  between June 28 and September 30. 

Two Butterfly Prints: Fruits and Flowers

 

Two linocuts, hand colored with watercolors. Each is 17" x 14". I created these to submit my idea for a giant butterfly to be displayed in an outdoor exhibition at the Morris Arboretum this summer. 

UPDATE: I got the job! I will be creating a much larger version of these prints to decorate a big butterfly - woo hoo! The exhibition is "Butterflies, Bees, and Blooms: A Pollinators Paradise" at the Morris Arboretum, June 28-September 30. 

"Four Season Finches"

 

Four Season Finches 
Linocut with oil based ink and chine collé on white Stonehenge 
10" x 15" 
Edition of 34

This was for Baren Forum Exchange #99. When I bought my first house, one of the first things I did was plant sunflowers, and I was thrilled to find that they attracted beautiful yellow finches. I didn't know then that the finches lose their bright yellow plumage in the fall/winter. Now every summer I look forward to seeing these beautiful little birds in their summer coats. 

Groundhog Day 2025

Haiku for Groundhog Day 2025 

here we are 
(again) 
facing a decision
to step out or
retreat 

This is my 11th annual Groundhog Day card. Here are links to all the previous cards: 

Groundhog Day 2014 
Groundhog Day 2015 (I skipped 2016)
Groundhog Day 2017
Groundhog Day 2018 
Groundhog Day 2019
Groundhog Day 2020 
Groundhog Day 2021
Groundhog Day 2022 
Groundhog Day 2023 
Groundhog Day 2024 

"Buford" (hand colored version)

 

Buford 
Woodcut, hand colored with watercolors 
7.5" x 10" 
Artist's Proof 

I made this woodcut for Baren Forum Exchange #98. It memorializes Buford, a black and tan coonhound we adopted in April of this year. He was a great dog. Friendly, calm, and loved nothing more than to go on long walks. I walked him 3-5 times a day for the entire 8 months we were lucky enough to have him as part of our family. Sadly, Buford developed cancer and we had to say goodbye soon after Thanksgiving. Sad we had him for such a short time, but glad to have given him a nice retirement. 

UNEARTHED - Opening January 11

 

I am so excited and honored to have been awarded the Rebeccah Milena Maia Blum Curatorial Fellowship for 2025! I'm curating the exhibition Unearthed at the Alber Gallery at Allen's Lane Art Center. The show featured figural ceramic work by Meri Adelman, June Terrell, and Gail Lloyd. Getting to know these artists over the past few years, I saw something truly profound and powerful in bringing their work together.

The opening with curator and artists' talks is SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 5PM, and the show will be up through February 8.

Don't miss seeing this magic in clay!