Original Works
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way, things I had no words for." --Georgia O'Keefe
Fine Art
Mixed Media &
Alcohol Ink
These are the paintings closest to my heart — large and small formats that are built up slowly in layers of paint, resin, textures, and genuine gold leaf. Each piece is deeply textural, almost sculptural, and changes with the light throughout the day. No two are alike, and no two moments of looking at them are quite the same.
Golden Fault
A world cracked open and glorious, layer upon layer of jewel-toned color stretches across the canvas while a river of gold leaf splits it open down the center, as if the earth itself gave way to reveal what was burning underneath. Tactile, abundant, and impossible to look away from. A meditation on the beauty that lives in the breaking — the fault lines that don’t destroy us, but illuminate us.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 12″ × 24″, 1.5” Deep Canvas. Created with texture paste, alcohol inks, fluid acrylics, and gold leaf.
My Two Cents:
Humanity's Children, Peace 1
A meditation on our shared humanity, rich layers of organic texture, burned paper, and embedded coins anchor a glowing landscape of amber, copper, and gold, while the artist’s poem at the center asks us to choose understanding over blame. Intimate, urgent, and achingly beautiful. The first in a series — a quiet, powerful reminder that we are not so different, and we are in this together to stay.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 12” X 20” | Framed. Created with organic textures, alcohol inks, fluid acrylics, gold acrylics, enamels, burned papers, and coins.
The Seam That Holds
The Covenant
Some agreements are older than language.
Against a deep, consuming black ground, organic forms emerge in warm ochres, sandy taupes, and burnished rose — a geological strata or aged parchment slowly surfacing from darkness, brought forward by some ancient, unspoken agreement between the earth and the void. A craquelure technique is employed throughout, fracturing the surface into intricate networks of fine cracks that evoke antiquity — the dried bed of a vanished river, the skin of a centuries-old manuscript, the parched earth of a forgotten civilization. Scattered gold leaf catches light like embers or distant stars. It breathes life into the work’s narrative of resilience, proof that even in the darkest ground, something brilliant refuses to be extinguished. The composition’s most deliberate element is a wax seal bearing the Tree of Life, anchored in the lower register of the canvas. It is not merely decorative — it is the binding instrument of the covenant itself.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ on 1.5″ thick canvas, needs no frame. Created with texture paste, alcohol inks, fluid acrylics, wax, mica powder and gold le
Alluvial
Alluvial suggests a landscape shaped by water and time, with flowing, branching patterns and a rich, grounded palette. This commanding mixed media draws the viewer into a geological dreamscape, as though witnessing the earth itself in mid-transformation. A sweeping diagonal current divides the composition, dark, mineral-dense browns and rusted sienna on the left give way to pale, breath-like luminosity on the upper right, suggesting the tension between weight and release, shadow and emergence, like an image of an alluvial fan. This piece evokes an ancient script, root systems, or the branching path of water through stone and soil, punctuated by clusters of deep emerald glitter that read as raw malachite or moss emerging from sediment, a quiet breath of organic life pushing through the mineral weight above.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 24″ × 36″ Canvas, with .75″ wide frame. Created with texture paste, alcohol inks, fluid acrylics, glass pieces, mica powder, and gold leaf.
Copper Relief
Pure texture, pure warmth, layer upon layer of rich copper tones rise and recede across the canvas in an almost sculptural landscape of peaks and valleys. Organic and ancient-feeling, as if something elemental has been excavated and brought into the light.
A study in the beauty of a single element pushed to its fullest expression, proof that depth, richness, and complexity need no color but their own.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 11″ × 14″ | Framed in a black floating frame. Created with texture paste, alcohol inks, and fluid acrylics.
Crowned Earth
Crowned Earth begins deep beneath the surface. There is something that feels ancient in this work. Layers of organic materials build the surface — fragile, yet weighted with the suggestion of things buried or preserved. Ghostly circular forms drift beneath, neither fully present nor fully gone, like impressions left by objects long removed.
Over all this presides the molten crown in the upper left, mounded gold organic materials studded with emerald green gemstones, its fingers of liquid gold trailing downward. It has the authority of something ancient.
At the center bottom, a gilded Tree of Life seal is pressed into the surface — the artist’s recurring emblem across this body of work. Here it functions not as signature but as declaration. The reclaimed wood frame is not incidental, it is part of the work.
Mixed Media on Wood panel | 12″ × 12″ | Framed in a handcrafted wood frame. | Created with organic materials, wax fluid acrylics and alcohol ink, glass pieces and shimmering accents sealed under professional varnish.
Fault Lines
A world seen from above, luminous teal, pearl, and metallic gold flow and bubble across the surface while bold black fault lines cut through with quiet authority, as if the earth itself is shifting beneath something beautiful. Organic, geological, and utterly mesmerizing. A reminder that even in fracture there is breathtaking grace, the cracks are not the end of the story, they are part of it.
Acrylic Pour on Canvas | 8″ × 10″ framed in gold | Created with acrylic pour, Floetrol, and metallic gold on an 8×10 canvas
What the Wind Left
A love letter to resilience to the wildflowers that refuse to bow, the gold that lingers long after the storm has passed. Warm amber light breathes across the canvas as daisies, lavender, and a solitary copper bloom hold their ground among swaying grasses. A quiet meditation on what remains when everything unnecessary has been swept away.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ canvas | Framed in a black floating frame. Created in layers of texture paste, fluid acrylics, gold enamel, and acrylic paint.
Gilded Poppies
A declaration of fire and grace, bold red poppies rise unapologetically against a luminous, swirling backdrop of gold and amber, refusing to be anything but seen. Delicate daisies whisper at their feet, and gold catches the light like something sacred left behind. A celebration of boldness, beauty, and the wild things that insist on blooming.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ | Framed in a wood stained floating frame. Created in layers of texture paste, fluid acrylics, gold enamel, and acrylic paint.
Embers and Bloom
A smoldering world where coneflowers glow like living fire against a backdrop of dripping gold and deep, jewel-toned shadow. Rich and layered, intimate and intense, this small canvas holds an enormous amount of light. A reminder that the most radiant things often emerge from the darkest places, burning quietly, beautifully, and
without apology.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 8″ × 10″ | Framed in black floating frame | Created with alcohol ink, fluid acrylics, acrylic paint, shimmering accents sealed under professional varnish, and black enamel.
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One Gold Heart
Created as the illustration for my original Valentine’s poem “Two Hearts, One Gold Beat”, this intimate piece captures the poem’s central image, two bruised hearts forged together into something rare and luminous. A glowing gold heart floats in a swirl of purple and magenta, adorned with gold leaf that catches light like something precious and hard-won.
Mixed Media | Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Canvas | 4″ × 12″ | Not available for sale — displayed as an example of alcohol ink, fluid acrylic, textures, gold leaf work and the artist’s poem-and-painting practice.
Alcohol ink is a medium that rewards both surrender and intention. I begin by letting the ink flow freely across Yupo paper, then return with deliberate mark-making — fine pen lines, botanical details, and subtle gold accents — to bring structure and depth to what the medium creates spontaneously. The results are luminous, intricate, and endlessly surprising.
Bloom 1:
The Fever Garden
A garden in full, feverish bloom, magenta, burgundy, gold, and pink collide in breathtaking abundance, threaded through with delicate ink details that draw the eye deeper and deeper into the chaos. Lush, mysterious, and impossible to take in all at once. The garden you stumble into at the height of summer and cannot find your way out of, and don’t want to.
Alcohol Ink and Ink on YUPO Paper | 11″ × 14″ (framed 19.5″ × 23″) Framed in black. Bloom 1 and Bloom 2 can be purchased individually or as a pair.
Bloom 2: Full Riot
Color in absolute, joyful rebellion, bold reds, greens, and a rainbow sky burst open across the surface while ink-drawn leaves and flowers anchor the wildness with surprising delicacy. Energetic, alive, and completely irresistible.
Alcohol Ink and Ink on YUPO Paper | 11″ × 14″ (framed 19.5″ × 23″) Framed in black. Bloom 1 and Bloom 2 can be purchased individually or as a pair.
Triptych: The Elements
Three elemental worlds, each complete and yet inseparable, a cool, bubbling expanse of silver and blue above, a sweeping landscape of amber and coral flame in the middle, and a luminous wash of green and earth below. Together they tell the oldest story there is. What you see in each panel is yours to decide, the elements have always been open to interpretation, as ancient and personal as the viewer who stands before them.
Alcohol Ink on YUPO Paper | Three 5″ × 7″ panels (framed 9.5″ × 17″) Framed together in black.
Tidal & Terrestrial
These two small paintings hold an enormous amount of nature between them — one pulled toward water and depth, the other rooted in earth and warmth. Together they tell the oldest story there is: the shoreline where two elemental worlds meet, push against each other, and become something neither could be alone. Each painting is complete in itself. Together, they are something more.
Available individually or as a pair.
Tidal From the Tidal & Terrestrial Diptych
Deep in the blue-green world below the surface, something is always in motion. Cool teals and lush emerald greens cascade and pool across the surface, while a dark, wandering line cuts through the composition like a current finding its way — unhurried, inevitable. A deep cobalt pool anchors the left, weighted and still, while earthy rust tones at the lower right suggest the seafloor beneath it all. This is the world the tide knows intimately: restless, luminous, and endlessly becoming.
Terrestrial From the Tidal & Terrestrial Diptech
Warm, mineral, and quietly alive. A copper glitter seam runs diagonally across the surface like a vein of gold ore caught mid-revelation, dividing the painting between the chartreuse and olive greens of something living above and the rich amber earth below. Circular forms drift across the lower right — fossils, perhaps, or lichen pressed into stone — organic marks left by slow, patient time. This is the world beneath your feet: ancient, layered, and glittering with what it holds.
Alcohol Ink and Metallic Shimmer on Yupo Paper | 8.25” × 6.25” | Framed in natural wood.
Prescribed Burn
I’ve learned that some things don’t transform gradually. Some things need fire.
Prescribed Burn began as an exploration of flame — the color of it, the movement, the way it consumes without apology. But as the layers built up, gold leaf catching light like embers, the lines twisting and reaching, it became something more personal. A meditation on what it means to deliberately release — old patterns, inherited beliefs, ways of moving through the world that no longer fit.
We are living in a time that asks this of us collectively too.
Look closely and you’ll find one corner that the fire hasn’t reached. I left it deliberately. It isn’t absence — it’s anticipation. The clearing before new growth. The exhale before something better takes root.
That quiet space is what the burn is for.
Alcohol Ink on YUPO Paper | Gold Leaf | Shimmering Metallic Highlights | 11 X 14″, Framed in Black
Botanicals
& Landscape
Flowers, wildflowers, and the natural landscape of Western North Carolina have always been central to my work. These paintings range from intimate studies of a single bloom to expansive meadow scenes alive with color and movement — all painted with the same intuitive, textural approach that defines my work.
The Garden Wanderers
Find a dreamlike world where hydrangea blooms rise on rivers of color, and a jewel-toned butterfly pauses mid-flight as if it too was drawn in by the magic. Teal, gold, crimson, and violet collide and drip in breathtaking abundance. The garden that exists just beyond the ordinary the one you stumble into when you stop long enough to truly look, and find yourself unable to leave.
Mixed Media on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ | Created with alcohol ink, fluid acrylics, acrylic paint, and shimmering accents sealed under professional varnish
Still, They Bloom
Still, They Bloom is a luminous celebration of persistence — a meadow conjured from darkness, where every flower refuses the night surrounding it. Against a midnight black background, an extraordinary cast of wildflowers emerges: voluptuous red poppies, cream cosmos as wide as a held breath, a blazing tiger lily reaching upward, dusky purple scabiosa, ghost-pale seed pods, scattered mimosa buds glowing gold, and the ethereal silver filaments of dandelion wisps caught mid-flight.
The black ground is not absence here — it is the condition that makes brilliance possible. This is the painting’s quiet argument: that beauty is not dependent on favorable circumstances. It simply insists. The gold-toned artist’s monogram, nestled quietly among the stems, feels less like a signature and more like a final bloom — one more small, golden thing finding its place in the dark. Still, They Bloom is an act of faith painted in color.
Acrylic on Black Canvas | 30″ × 40″ Canvas in an antique gold floating frame.
Unraveling in Bloom
There is something quietly radical about a bouquet that refuses to be contained.
Unraveling in Bloom celebrates the wild, abundant nature of flowers at their peak — spilling, dripping, and cascading beyond every boundary. A luminous lavender chrysanthemum anchors the composition, its layered petals catching light from above while deep violet shadow give it weight and dimension. Around it, coneflowers, daisies, dahlias, an orange tiger lily and a soft pink anemone play their supporting roles — each distinct, each contributing to the joyful chaos of a garden in full expression.
Below the blooms, rivers of color unravel downward — teal, gold, magenta, green, and white — as if the flowers themselves are bleeding beauty into the world. The whole composition floats against a soft lavender halo, giving the piece an ethereal, almost dreamlike quality.
This is a painting for spaces that can hold a little wildness. It rewards close looking — new details reveal themselves each time — but reads with equal confidence from across a room.
Acrylic and Fluid Acrylic on Canvas | 22″ × 28″ |1.5″ grey wooden frame.
What Lives Between
A forest that refuses to be only what it seems, white birch trunks stand sentinel and still, while vivid rivers of teal, crimson, and amber burn through the spaces between them. Cool and wild at once, quiet on the surface and blazing underneath. A reminder that the most extraordinary things are often found in the in-between, hidden just beneath a calm exterior.
Acrylic on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ | Framed in a black floating frame. Created in layers of texture paste and acrylic paint.
Snowy Dawn
A winter forest hushed and heavy with snow, pierced by a single ember of warm golden light breaking through the center, dawn arriving quietly, inevitably, into the stillness. Textural snow-laden branches catch the first light while mountains fade softly into the pale sky above. A reminder that even in the coldest, quietest moments, the light always finds its way through.
Acrylic on Canvas | 10″ × 20″
Created with acrylic paint and sparkling snow texture
gel, on a deep 1.5” deep canvas.
Example only: Not for Sale.
Summer in the Meadow
A meadow at the absolute height of summer, poppies, daisies, lavender, ranunculus, lupine, and dozens more wildflowers press forward in glorious, textural abundance against a soft mountain backdrop and open sky. Every petal built up in thick, palette knife impasto that you can almost feel. A painting that doesn’t just show you summer, it puts you right in the middle of it, surrounded by everything blooming all at once.
Acrylic on Canvas | 24″ × 36″ on deep canvas (1.5 in. depth) | Created with texture paste, palette knife, and acrylics.
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The Sunflower's Secret
Up close and intimate, a sunflower reveals what you’d never see from a distance — a center meticulously dotted in gold, cobalt, rust, and teal, glittering like a hidden universe. Bold palette knife petals in rich gold and amber radiate outward against a deep navy sky. A reminder that the most extraordinary details are always found by those willing to look a little closer.
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ |
Created with texture paste, palette knife, and heavy-bodied acrylic paint on deep 1.5” deep canvas.
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Quiet Guardian
A presence that needs no introduction, wings spread wide and luminous against a deep teal sky, her face bowed in quiet devotion. Neither loud nor distant, simply and completely there. A reminder that the most powerful forces in our lives are often the ones we feel rather than see, watching over us in the spaces between.
Acrylic on Canvas | 8″ × 10″
Created in acrylic paint on an 8×10 canvas
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The Loudest Bloom
A coneflower that refuses to be background, filling the canvas with unabashed magenta and pink against an electric chartreuse sky, flecked with wild abandon. Up close and impossible to ignore, this is joy in its purest form. A celebration of taking up space, blooming fully, and being exactly, boldly, beautifully yourself.
Acrylic on Canvas | 11″ × 14″ | Framed in a black floating frame.
Created in acrylic paint
Sunflower
Whimsy I & II
Two sunflowers with a sense of humor — each bloom crowns a wonderfully curling, looping stem that refuses to grow in a straight line, set against soft teal skies and golden green earth. Playful, textural, and full of personality, they are charming individually and irresistible together. A reminder that not everything needs to grow straight up to reach the light — sometimes the most joyful path is
the one that wanders. Available individually or as a pair.
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas | 8″ × 16″ | Framed in floating frames | Available individually or as a pair | Created with texture paste, palette knife, and heavy-bodied acrylic paint
Twilight Sentinel
A bare tree stands tall and unwavering against one of nature’s most spectacular performances, a twilight sky exploding in magenta, orange, gold, and violet above a darkening meadow of wildflowers. Stripped of its leaves but not its strength, rooted
deep while the world burns brilliant around it. And at its feet, a small rabbit watches it all in perfect stillness. Look closely.
Impasto Acrylic on Canvas | 16″ × 20″ (black floating frame)
Created with texture paste, palette knife, and heavy-bodied acrylic paint.
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Commissions
I accept a limited number of commissions for custom paintings tailored to your space, palette, and vision. Past commissions have included pet/memorial portraits, home portraits, florals, textured botanicals, and abstracts.
◆ Pet Portraits
◆ Home Portraits
◆ Custom Florals & Abstracts
◆ Limited availability each year
Please click here for examples of past pet portraits and other commission samples:
If you have something specific in mind, I’d love to hear about it.