Artwork
Purpose & Focus
Presently, I'm enjoying an extended reintroduction to acrylic paints after a years-long hiatus. In recent years, I created with paper and natural materials in my studio, leaving painting to the side for a while. However, after attending an artist retreat in February of 2021, I mixed my own watercolour paints and began to dabble with that medium. Months later, I made a personal promise to pick up other paints that I've neglected and practice with a variety of techniques, compositions, and subjects in acrylics.
My visual focus is on the play of light, contrast, the areas where light and dark diverge, the borders of negative and positive space. Gestalt is my inspiration, and the focus of my personal work for 2024.
Current Works in Progress
Five-a-Day Illustrations
Studies in fresh and unprocessed foods.
4"x6", mixed media on vellum.
Silhouette & Abstraction
A series of silhouettes rendered in ochre, copper, or oxblood. Mixed media on canvas
Flies for Emma
Drawings of common insects, created for a fellow garden enthusiast. Pencil and ink.
Teaching & Learning
When teaching art, I combine instruction and production with the mindful meditative practice of sound bathing. The calm and perspective that immersive sound contributes to the art-making process is beyond measure.
Black Women Build: The Mosaic House Numbers Workshop for first-time home owners
The Arc: Sound Meditation and Art Classes. My weekly sessions started with sound meditation followed by art making.
Art in the Round:
Following my season of teaching, several of my artists had pieces selected for an annual art exhibition and auction.
Sketch & Drawings:
Sketch: Covent Garden, Apple Market
Street Art: Summer Series 025
Girl Magick
Street Art: Summer Series 011
Watercolours:
Study of Baltimore Row House
Portrait of Little Edie
Antigua Sea Grapes
Portrait: Prince, detail
Baltimore Row Houses
Stone Henge, quick-sketch
In addition to painting in this medium, I enjoy mixing and mulling my own water-based pigments. These have been used by artists and art therapists in the region to share highly pigmented hues, and enhance their creativity
Recent Acrylics:
Self Portrait 019
Self Portrait 017
Self Portrait 020
Portrait: Look Up
Portrait: Mr Manhattan, esq.
Jersey
Triptych: Old. Blue. Eyes.
8x8 acrylic on canvas
Detail: Sound Bath & Bowls
Sculptural & 3-D:
Paper: Her face
Copper & Resin wind chimes
Inside Outside:
Emerging mask, with fabric, sewing notions, and leaves, acrylic on plaster
kinetic_sand_scupture.mp4World Turtle: Kinetic Sand Tray
"See the turtle of enormous girth. On it's back it holds the Earth"
Sand trays have been used in therapy to help individuals confront and deal with their trauma. This kinetic sand tray coffers both manual interaction and a mindful visual focus. Manually, sand can be manipulated with a rake, to create an infinite number of temporary designs. As a mindful focus, the turtle does the work: gravity slows the pendulous motion, and wide sweeping arcs become small, tighter, and more interesting.
Photography:
Triptych: A Study in Red Couch
Portrait: The Perfect Pint
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