2024 Expedition Series 2

2024 found me revisiting old themes in my work, specifically painting sea faring vessels over old works on paper. I will often find myself drawn to the calmness of the ocean and lose my thoughts in the repetition of the waves crashing. As I draw and paint ships and sailboats traversing the water, it becomes a meditative practice. I will reference the vessel, but leave out details and I always paint the water from my own imagination. If I am visiting a beach, I will sketch with colored pencil so I can work the water into my memory, but back in my studio, I am going based off only my experience of having been near the ocean. This expedition series so far includes the works "Voyage to the Unknown" and "Sailing Under the Stars". "Voyage to the Unknown" received an honorable mention in the juried exhibit ​Maritime Daydreams at Firefly Artists Gallery and was also selected to be shown in the Sea the Shore group show with Islip Art Council. "Sailing Under the Stars" was on view at the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library for the month of July 2024. "A Walk in Soundless Space" was part of the Mighty group show at Christensen Gallery, Babylon NY during the month of Nov. 2024. "The Chaos" was exhibited with the Brightwaters Art Council at the BAFFA Gallery in Sayville, NY.

2017 Expedition Series

These works were created as an ode to female scientists that go overlooked. These heavily layered mixed media collages on paper both hide and reveal portraits of women, juxtaposed with paintings of tallships; representing the expeditions women have embarked on to bring us closer to understanding the universe. Additionally inspired by astrophysics, the concept of a ship emerging from an abstraction of color and texture is meant to represent the vastness of the universe and how we are but small blips floating in an infinite "sea".