sunlight artwork

SUNLIGHT ARTWORK

I currently have original pastels as well as several limited editions fine art prints of these originals available for sale by appointment. Custom work is also available by appointment.

Prices vary for custom work depending on size and intricacy.

There are two main "types" of images that I am working with currently - - the colorful and whimsical dream-like imagery and more recently portraits.  Please use the tabs to the left to see examples of each style, as well as originals and limited edition fine art prints.

I use soft pastel sticks of pure pigment drawn on a sanded pastelcard or board.  This gives a rich, velvety effect and density of color saturation. Large areas of color often appear painted, instead of drawn, due to this saturation of pigment and absence of defined line quality.  I then use my fingers to blend and blend the colors to further enhance the painterly quality and saturation of color.  By the time I finish a piece I am often covered in color myself and my fingers have had the fingerprints "sanded" away by the tooth of the paper.  The imagery for my drawings comes from my imagination, often inspired by that magical child-like sense that I believe exists somewhere within us all, no matter what our age.

The first pastel paintings came to me one night so pronounced and with such a sense of urgency that I felt compelled to get up at 3:00 in the morning and go out to my studio to "give birth to it". I didn't realize what was happening at the time, but these images began to pour out of me with a determination and life all their own. They truly had a quality of wanting to be "born".

I was working at an art therapy internship shortly after this first painting experience. I worked with Hospice patients and their families through the dying process and into bereavement with the loved ones left in this world. A predominant theme during this work became attempting to answer such questions as, "where do you go when you leave your body?,""what happens when you die?", and so on. Through witnessing the bravery and courage in my clients in attempting to answer these questions for themselves and their loved ones, I began to ponder these questions more consciously for myself. Through the art making process, I began to give vision an imagery to some of the answers that came to me.

My pastel images are pieces of my soul. They are deep yearnings and wishes. These are the desires and feelings my heart longs for here and now -- a sense of freedom, whimsy, peace, serenity, calm, connection, communion, inspiration, the spiritual in LIFE. I believe that these images are not only my own heart's desire and soul's yearnings, but more universal ones as well. I wonder, if we we all to slow down enough to ponder the questions my clients and I queried in the last moments of their lives, HERE and NOW, if there might be similar yearnings for each of us? I also wonder, if we were to start truly living from that place, what life might look like for all of us?