Mixed Media Paintings

My work is a response to the wonders and mysteries nature holds. By turning my painted landscapes into dreamscapes, I have created a fantasy world inspired by the forest and the animals that inhabit it. I am inspired by the patterns I see in nature/God’s creation, like the twisting branch of a tree, a swarm of black birds in the sky or the design on a butterfly wing. My works combine the processes of painting and printmaking techniques onto Chine-colle and wood. I create works in which one can escape into another world, similar to our own but more ethereal and atmospheric. My work becomes a place the viewer can enter, where color creates a sense of light and motion and the animals are more defined by their patterns and colors which are abstracted and dissolved into the landscape.