Mixed Bunch, 38x23 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2022
Seventeen Tulips, 36x38 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Orange and Pink Lillies, 43x23 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Twenty-six Tulips, 37x33 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Red Tulips, 39x26 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Mixed Bouquet, 41x27 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Roses and Hydrangea, 38x22 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Iris, 40x23 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Yellow Lillies, 41x32 inches, gouache-painted paper collage on gampi, 2023
Working across painting, printmaking and collage, I explore transience in contemporary life through pervasive symbols such as cut flowers. I push the vibrancy of color to be worthy of the reality of the beauty of a vase of simple cut flowers. Though appearing full of life, vased flowers are undeniably transient, cut from their life source and decaying constantly.
The way I create is a rebellion against today’s all consuming virtual and busy-busy culture. I slow down, embracing tactile and colorful materiality, layer by layer. Recent work includes this series of still life collages built from 500 to more than 2000 of pieces of gouache-painted paper.