Finally I had the chance to post some of my new artworks. I was experimenting with new mediums beside graphite: charcoal and ink.

"Where I want to rest" - 24"x24" charcoal, acrylic on stained wood.



"Murder of crows" - ink drawing on reclaimed barn wood



"Crow" - ink drawing on reclaimed barn wood


"Night Journey" - charcoal on stained wood. Gracefully hanging from the drawing is a white piece of silk that has drawn on it an anatomical heart. 24"x24"


First one from the series: "Jacob's fight with the angel" - charcoal drawing on wood panel, 12"x12"


"To all new arrivals Welcome. A number has been established for you" - graphite and plaster on wood, 24"x24"

One of my installations for my new exhibit at the W. Bonifas Arts center in Escanba, MI, is an installation on a beautiful fragment from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman.
It regards this following fragment:

"As God comes a loving bed-fellow and sleeps at my side all night and close on the peep of the day,
And leaves for me baskets covered with white towels bulging the house with their plenty. "

It is such a beautiful view of God as a close good friend - I was truly moved...and as I read this, it already generated images in my mind and this is what I saw:








The wing is hand made. I built it on a metal structure/skeleton and added the feathers, gluing them one by one. The chair I found at a local antiques shop and the 3 baskets filled with white towels are the best part. Also on the floor are 2 pillows, one has imprinted one of my wing drawings and the second pillow has imprinted the above mentioned fragment from Leaves of Grass.
I really had a great time putting this installation together.

The opening reception of my exhibit at the W. Bonifas Fine Arts Center in Escanaba, MI - April 2

I am very excited about the new show. It's all up and it looks great!
I will be posting images from the opening and the new artworks. None of the new artworks are on the site yet.
You can take a little peek below :-)

These small crucifixions made out of clay are part of my interactive installation for the upcoming solo show at W. Bonifas Arts Center opening April 2. The installation is entitled "Personal Jesus". They will be displayed on a bench under my large crucifixion graphite drawing (images coming soon). Everybody will be able to take a crucifix, therefore the personal Jesus.I will post more images with the finished piece.The small clay crucifixes will be fired and I will try to make around 200 of them. My husband, Nathan and fellow artists Ryan Brayak and Pasqua Warstler are helping me with the production.I am so excited about this project - really looking forward to finalize it!

I am getting ready for my new solo show that will open April 2nd at the W. Bonifas Art center in Escanaba, MI. I will have lots of new pieces to post, but many of them are in works.
I am very excited about the new pieces I'm working on - for some of them it seems that I have waited a life time to make them... this must be the right time, I guess.
Below is an initial stage of the Annunciatory Angel, study after Fra Angelico.

Even though these winter days seem long and uneventful, moments like these break the ice ...
More on my site under the ttv series.