Recent Work

I am thrilled to be a partnering artist with Nichole Betancourt on Governors Island at the Climate Imaginarium. My wild and untamed Bookshelf painting is hanging adjacent to Nichole’s multimedia installation, Trees/Plant/People/Time, about people’s tender relationship with trees. It is the perfect place to go on these balmy summer days, possibly to dream about trees.

My painting and NIcole's installation are labors of love, gifts from us, from Nicole's talented crew and from the Climate Imaginarium volunteers to the forest - and to you 🌳🌴🌲🫶🏽

COME VISIT! OPEN every Sat & Sun 12-5 pm thru October 25, 2026 at @climateimaginarium on @governorsisland

In my painitng: Recommended reading by botanists, indigenous teachers, journalists, and fiction writers that invite us to explore our relationship with trees.

• Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future by Daniel Lewis 
• The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence 
• Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
• The Overstory by Richard Powers 
• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• To Speak for the Trees by Diana Beresford-Kroeger
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake 
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

• The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence edited by John C. Ryan, Patricia Vieira, and Monica Gagliano 
• Forest Bathing: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness by Dr. Qing Li
• Bad Naturalist: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop by Paula Whyman
• The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoe Schlanger

Layers

These layered drawings are about memory and family, about how the past lingers in our present and our future. They begin with black and white photographs, worn with age and love, and are drawn on sheets of translucent and transparent Dur-alar. The personalities emerge in black, while the colors of the background are seen through the translucent layers which mimic the ways in which old photos and memories fade. The more brightly colored top layers contain dream and fantasy elements.

Unfinished Women Series 

This series of "unfinished" drawings tell the stories of specific but imaginary women that I create. As I draw, I imagine their lives and their personalities. Stories emerge and infuse the works. I go thrifting to find the clothing I think they might wear and integrate the garment into the framing, adding another level to the work.

One Thing to Remember 

Artists Statement
My One Thing to Remember is about our connection to nature, to the environment around us. Some cultures might see spirit animals in my images, but for me it is more about our what we share - our DNA. 60% with birds and fish, 85-98% with animals and primates. We have so much in common, than differences. We need to remember this and to be better stewards of the land and the environment, so we can all survive together. For my One Thing to Remember series, hung as a vertical totem, I chose five endangered species. The Asian Elephant, Arun Leopard, Tapanuli Orangutan, Forest Owlet and Gopher Tortoise, are combined with five examples from humanity from around the world.

"As I draw each line, I remember"

About the Project
One Thing To Remember is an international exhibition curated by Karmela Berg. Each artist was asked to create a work on the theme, 100cm long and 20 cm wide, that we could mail to her in a standard size envelope. The show, scheduled to open in 2020, was postponed during the pandemic. It opened in Hovinkartano, Finland on July 30, 2022 and was on exhibit through August 1, 2022. It traveled to Galleri Schaeffers Gate 5 in Oslo, Norway in September of 2022 and will travel next to The Herzliya Artists’ Residence and gallery exhibition space in Herzliya, Israel. Every work in the show had to be 40 x 8 inches, so each of my works is 8 inches square.

From curator, Karmela Berg (Ramat Aviv, Israel)
"We live mostly in the present. At the same time we think and plan our future. From time to time, once in a while, we look to the past. This group of amazing artists are here sharing their moments with One Thing To Remember. They are inviting us to take part in those tiny blocks of memories, which reveal and construct their personalities."

Catalogue http://onethingtoremember.art/ 

One Thing to Remember Installation
Hovinkartano, Finland