Palmarin Merges
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Balance in Nature
April 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata & paper target, acrylic paint, pearlescent pigment & glitter
16.5" x 15"
This series took about one and a half years to complete. It started with that barely visible poem by Emily Dickinson to the right of the deer. Her poem made me think of balance and nature – the Nature of Life and Death.
The Feast before Us
March 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata, acrylic paint & pearlescent pigment
18" x 15.5"
Flowers, especially native flowers that grow at high altitudes are never very large and are in fact quite tiny. Paintings and images of small flowers are my way of saying, “HEY! Pay attention. Look around. Breathe deep.”
part of the scenery (nothing to see here)
March 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata, acrylic paint & glitter
8.5" x 14.5"
Rabbits, to me, represent fecundity and a wealth of creativity and ideas. Making this piece involved one rabbit screen printed several times, then individually painted. You can see through the rabbits and see what they are made of.
Going to Work
January 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata (Diptych)
40" x 15.5"
The hummingbird was printed onto several pieces of the CA Transplant series. Multiples are the essence of printmaking and allows the opportunity to explore one image in a variety of ways.
Sing sing sing - SOLD
March 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata & acrylic paint (Diptych)
40" x 15.5"
I started this series in the winter and had dreams of Spring the entire time. Blue skies, birds singing, heart singing because of Spring.
Streptopos roseus
April 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata, acrylic paint, embossing powder & pearlescent pigment
19.5" x 14.75"
There is a visual bounty of natural wonder and beauty that surrounds us.
Going back to Cali (Columbine)- SOLD
June 2011
Screenprint on Torinoko with acrylic paint.
23.75" x 25"
I was excited to get this commision! Especially of a seris that I really love! There are three panels total in this commissioned piece. This panel features columbines growing in my garden. In the original CA Transplant piece 'The Feast Before Us' the columbines are seen sideways. Here they are seen as they are naturally.
Going Back to Cali (Dicentra) - SOLD
June 2011
Screenprint on Torinoko with acrylic paint.
23.75" x 25"
This is the center panel of the Going Back to Cali series. Dicentra, aka Bleeding Heart, are one of my favorite flowers. Although the Bleeding Heart wasn't a part of the original CA Transplant series, I am glad to have had the opportunity to paint them in this triptych.
Going Back to Cali (Streptopus roseus) - SOLD
June 2011
Screenprint on Torinoko with acrylic paint.
23.75" x 25"
And the last panel on the left features Streptopus roseus a very samll wildflower. The bright colors remind of So. Cal. and reminds me of how glorious the summers in the Pacific NW can be. This piece refers to the Streptopus roseus of the CA Transplant series.
Waiting in the Bee Stand
March 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata, acrylic paint & pearlescent pigment (Diptych)
20" x 16.5" & 16.5" x 20"
I had just finished my Master Gardener class and there was much talk of the demise of the honeybees. I made this piece thinking of bees and ended up siding with the birds. Birds gotta eat too right?
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Balance in Nature
April 2008
Screenprint on Kitakata & paper target, acrylic paint, pearlescent pigment & glitter
16.5" x 15"
This series took about one and a half years to complete. It started with that barely visible poem by Emily Dickinson to the right of the deer. Her poem made me think of balance and nature – the Nature of Life and Death.
California Transplant
Change and movement are universal themes. It is a cycle: birth, life, death…change, adapt, grow. Every change is a “death” of what we used to know, a chance for us to adapt and grow into our new situation or die. Change is the way of Nature.
The "Ca. Transplant" series of screen-prints are my response to the mental and physical shift of moving from Oakland, California to Sherwood, Oregon: of leaving an urban environment and settling into a suburban environment and map my internal as well as my external environment.