My Artwork

I have dabbled in all sorts of art from cake decorating to tole painting and sculpure.  Creating is just pure joy for me and I prefer at this point in my life to let art be an avocation, the voice of my soul.

This bear is actually a large wooden jigsaw puzzle I created for retreat work.  I "saw" this design in a dream.

This is a church bulletin cover I designed in 1996.

Here is my third-ever attempt at sculpting, something I had to do as part of a school project in 2009.  It's called "Releasing".  Each piece is done in non-bake clay, the bird is painted, the hand is not.  I love the way this one turned out, particularly because it was a perfect representation of the way I felt about myself after three years of training to be a spiritual director.  It was time to let myself fly.

This is another school project 2008, called "Sitting with SO".  It is hand-quilted fabric and depicts the Deity who came to me in prayer time to help me with my fears.  "SO" (the name I gave her) was female to me and she invited me to place all my fears into the orb she sat with.  One day she asked me to take a walk with her down a country lane.  In my mind I saw the two of us walking and talking about life.  We came to an abrupt end of the lane overlooking great vastness.  We were standing on a high cliff.  I asked her what we were there for.  She asked me what I saw.  I said, "Well, the world."  She said, "It's yours."  That was the last time she appeared to me.

Here is a recent cake project:

I painted this in acrylics for Stan  in 2003 while living with Mom in Maine.  It is called "Riverwind Thru a Window".  If he hung it in his home in Ohio, he could pretend that I was as close as looking out the window to Mom's house, depicted here.  We were living 1,000 miles apart at the time and missing one another.  The windows in the house are the upstairs kitchen and den windows, the rooms in which I spent most of my waking hours.