From plants to prints to art

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small art pieces that are my appreciation of the beauty the world demonstrates to me daily.

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I create art with layers of fabric, papers, pigments, shapes, and ideas. Inspired by the natural world, I fill my tables with materials and pour paint.

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I have always looked for the story of the place I am expressing in my work. I don’t always make the story explicit, but I always look for it, because the story informs the choices I make. With this new work, I am showing views of nature embedded into our city. 

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Nine years ago I had come to the creative end of a body of work and was a little lost creatively. That winter I and 3 other friends, a writer, a visual artist, a performance artist, and myself worked through the then-decade-old book, Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.

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I was stopped high on a steep street, grumpily waiting to proceed, when the gold light that lurks at the edge of day hit the treetops, rolling away from me to the eastern horizon.

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As I stand by the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis, I look at what is and wonder how it used to be. As an artist who makes art about the places I love, I ask, “What more can be known about this place?”

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I grew up in small Midwestern towns, spending summers on my grandparent’s farm with storytellers—people who noticed the ordinary but remarkable things that surround us. “Look at that,“ my grandmother would say as she pointed out a piece of bark, a shadow, bird, flower, or tree. “See how the light is dancing on the water?” my grandfather would ask.

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As a practicing artist, I exercise my curiosity about any place I want to express in my art work. I look, then I look it up, and ask, “what more can I know about this place?

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