white light studio

Through the Looking Glass

2012-02-12T11:32:00.001-08:00

18 x 14, collage.

It’s the Celtic in me

2012-02-04T07:13:00.000-08:00

20 x 16 Collage

Dogwood

2012-02-02T12:04:00.000-08:00

Collage 20 x 16

Deer

2012-02-02T12:02:00.000-08:00

Collage. 20 x 16

Abstract 1

2012-02-02T12:00:00.000-08:00

Collage 18 x 14

Flight

2012-01-10T16:27:00.000-08:00

20 x 16. Mixed Media Collage.

Rosario Beach, WA

2012-01-10T07:07:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 16 x 20

Cranes

2012-01-10T07:06:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 20 x 16

Magnolia

2011-12-26T11:04:00.000-08:00

20 x 16 Mixed Media

Horse Play

2011-12-20T13:32:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

Sunflowers

2011-12-20T09:41:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 16 x 20

Waiting For the Tide

2011-12-20T09:39:00.002-08:00

Mixed Media 20 x 16

A Poem as Lovely as a Tree

2011-12-20T09:39:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 16 x 20

The Blacksmith

2011-12-20T09:37:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 20 x 16

Lamorna Cove

2011-12-20T09:33:00.000-08:00

Mixed Media 18 x 14

Selworthy, England

2011-11-03T18:12:00.000-07:00

20 x 16 collage

Madrona Sunrise

2011-10-28T09:03:00.001-07:00

Collage 20 x 16

Windy Day

2011-10-28T09:02:00.001-07:00

Collage 20 x l6

Oriental Poppies II

2011-10-05T09:43:00.000-07:00

20 x 16

Madonna Lilies

2011-09-14T06:28:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Cascade Mountains

2011-08-22T05:08:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Cherry Orchards, Provence

2011-08-14T15:07:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Poppy Field, Provence

2011-08-12T09:58:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Provence, Lavender

2011-08-12T09:56:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Spider Web

2011-07-20T11:53:00.000-07:00

Sold to Private Collection

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

2011-06-24T10:51:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

In Fields of Gold

2011-06-24T10:50:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 20 x 16

Fire Dancer II

2011-04-20T12:52:00.000-07:00

Mixed Media/Collage, 16 x 20

Reverie

2011-04-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

Mixed media collage: 14 x 18

Sunflower Field, Provence

2011-04-05T16:23:00.000-07:00

Mixed Media/Collage, 20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

The Wave

2011-03-17T14:55:00.000-07:00

Collage/Mixed Media

16 x 20

Witches' Rocks

2011-03-05T14:22:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
20 x 16

Freedom

2011-02-11T14:45:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

His Pool

2011-01-28T13:31:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

Senanque Abbey, Provence

2011-01-20T07:08:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
20 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

Olive Grove, Provence

2011-01-20T07:02:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
20 x l6

Madrona Tree

2011-01-20T06:59:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
l6 x 20

Sold to Private Collection

Lavender, Provence

2011-01-20T06:53:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
18 x l4

Sussex Hens

2011-01-20T06:52:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
l8 x 14

Fantasy in Blue

2011-01-20T06:51:00.000-08:00

Collage/Mixed Media
l4 x 18

Trumpeter Swan

2010-12-15T13:42:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: l4 x 18

Ophelia Alone

2010-12-06T14:01:00.001-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Gordes, Provence

2010-11-27T11:55:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Grey Herons

2010-11-27T11:54:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

The Garden Shed

2010-11-03T10:18:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

English Garden

2010-08-30T09:40:00.000-07:00

Shall We Dance

2010-08-30T09:39:00.000-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

Croft Fishing, Hebrides

2010-08-30T09:38:00.000-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

Croft Spinning, Hebrides

2010-08-30T09:37:00.001-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

Croft Peat Digging, Hebrides

2010-08-30T09:36:00.001-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

Sold to Private Collection

The Beekeeper

2010-08-20T14:06:00.000-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

The Egg Gatherer

2010-08-17T14:57:00.000-07:00

16 x 20, collage/mixed media

The Onion Picker

2010-08-12T06:00:00.000-07:00

Size: 16 x 20

Golden Eagle

2010-08-12T05:58:00.001-07:00

Size: 16 x 20

Unity

2010-06-26T16:15:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Solitude

2010-06-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

l6 x 20 Mixed Media Collage

Sold to Private Collection

Patience

2010-06-18T10:31:00.000-07:00

16 x 20 Mixed Media Collage

Storm over Port Isaac

2010-06-01T15:47:00.000-07:00

l6" x 20" Mixed Media

Port Isaac is a small harbor village in Northern Cornwall. It is the site used to film the TV series Doc Martin. In that series the village was called “Port Wen”. It is a place I know well having gone on vacation there many times when I lived in

England

Requiem

2010-06-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

l6" x 20" Mixed Media

Down in Cornwall, the westernmost county in the UK, there are many standing stones often marking ancient burial grounds of the celts. This one is called Lanyon Quoit and is up on the moors. In the background you can just see one of the old ruins of the tin mines scattered throughout Cornwall. I have called this piece “Requiem” to respect the ancient Briton buried here.

Waiting for the Tide

2010-05-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Mixed Media. 16 x 20

Sold to Private Collection

Origin of Life

2010-03-26T07:18:00.000-07:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

First: Forever Celtic

2010-02-20T09:51:00.001-08:00

16 x 20 collage

I am back to my heritage, and Celtic origin. These are again based on the Callanish Standing stones in the Outer Hebridean Islands of Scotland. I have used the Celtic symbol which some think is the symbol for everlasting life and superimposed it on the picture. Some of the stones actually have this symbol carved into them in real life.

Sold to Private Collection

The Potting Shed

2010-02-20T09:50:00.000-08:00

16 x 20 oil on canvas.

This painting was done during a plein air session at our local nursery. Christianson’s Nursery near LaConner, WA. The gentleman taking a rest in the doorway gave me permission to paint him, but I never found out who he was.

The Eye

2010-02-20T09:49:00.000-08:00

8 x 8 collage on chunky canvas.

This is an idea which haunts me from time to time. I imaging how it would be in the jungle to suddenly realize some creature was watching and waiting for me to go by.

Sold to Private Collection

Dragonfly

2010-01-21T12:41:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 8 x 8

Sold to Private Collection

Nymph

2010-01-21T05:54:00.001-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

When I was a teenager, I played the violin at school. I used to
dream of running barefoot in the woods playing favorite tunes, the way
daydreaming kids do. Of course, in the end I never did, but it would have
been nice, so I just tried to imagine it in this collage.

Sold to Private Collection

Spirit of the Stones

2010-01-18T05:50:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Once I went on a hunt for ancestors, traveling from the US to Scotland, across to Kyle of Lochalsh, across on the ferry and over the island of Skye, and out on a 3 ½ hour ferry to the Isles of Harris and Lewis in the outer Hebrides. Up in the extreme north-west of Lewis I found a ring of standing stones called Callanish. The place was magical to me, eerie, lonely, sea pounding nearby, desolate treeless hills, and then these wonderful tall, slender stones weathered and gaunt. This is the effect I have tried to portray in my collage, the wavy lines depicting water and swirling list in and out of the stones.

Olive Tree - Provence

2010-01-18T05:48:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

I always think these trees with their gnarled trunks and branches look like ghouls in the evening light. The land in and around the olives is marked and rutted by tractors and people’s footsteps as they go and collect the olives in late summer. The rutted land has an ebb and flow of its own which I have tried to show in this piece. The hills beyond are mottled in that special blue and purple and green so typical of this area.

Sold to Private Collection

Lavender Fields – Provence

2010-01-18T05:45:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media

Size: 16 x 20

We lived for three years in the south of France, in Provence. The lavender fields stretch away as far as the eye can see in some areas – mostly the more isolated places, nearer the Provencal alps. If you stand near the edge of the fields, you can hear the busy hum of bees in the summer sun. The local people sell lavender honey which is a real treat.

Sold to Private Collection

Spring Dreams

2010-01-17T17:18:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

When Spring time comes around again I feel the magic of plants, trees and flowers pushing up, stretching and reaching for the sun. I tried to imagine being a young girl again, sitting on a rock in the sun and being a part of the wonderful energy and rebirth of Spring, hearing the splash
of a stream, the call of a bird and experiencing the soft feel of petals under my fingers.

Sold to Private Collection

Troubled Water

2010-01-17T17:14:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 14 x 18

Once, when I was going through a bad time, I went and stayed in a lovely old thatched hotel beside a salmon river in rural Devon, England. I was sitting on the lawn, which sloped down to the rough and fast moving river, painting an ancient arched stone bridge which spanned the river, when the owner of the hotel came out and told me that the bridge I was painting was the one in Simon and Garfunkle’s song “Bridge over Troubled Water”. I am assuming it was the truth, but he said that Paul Simon had gone to the hotel for a rest and while there he had written that song. Ever since, the place has a special meaning for me. “Like a bridge over troubled water, I will lay me down”.

Dragonfly

2010-01-11T07:29:00.001-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 8 x 10

Neon Nights

2010-01-11T07:28:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Sold to Private Collection

Cocktail

2010-01-11T07:27:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 26 x 16

Sold to Private Collection

Provencal Afternoon

2010-01-09T17:25:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting

Size: 9 x 6

Provencal Village Square

2010-01-06T11:16:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Moonscape

2010-01-06T11:10:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Lady in Blue

2010-01-06T11:06:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Mermaid

2010-01-06T10:55:00.001-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Sold to Private Collection

Fire Dancer

2010-01-02T17:15:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Sold to Private Collection

Two's Company

2010-01-02T17:13:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

The Lovers

2010-01-02T17:12:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

When I was planning the composition for the collage titled “The Lovers” I
wanted to try and show the different aspects that make up love between
a man and a woman. In my piece I show the outer part of the figure of
the woman as sparkling and ornamental. Much as a woman adorns her
body with make-up, bling, pretty clothes, etc. The inner part of the female
figure is shown as darker, quiet and secretive, and not immediately
apparent to the man. The man’s aspect is more open and easier to read.
His face reflects the lighter colors of the female figure’s outer body layer
since that is what usually attracts a man to a woman initially.

Sold to Private Collection

Madonna of the Tulip

2010-01-02T17:03:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Fishing Shack

2010-01-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 14 x 18

Wood Skeleton

2010-01-02T16:46:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 11 x 14

Wolf

2010-01-02T16:44:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 10 x12

Sunday Afternoon

2010-01-02T16:42:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 10 x12

Leap for Joy

2010-01-02T16:41:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Welsh Cottage

2010-01-02T16:39:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil Painting
Size: 14 x18

Tulip Girl

2010-01-02T16:37:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 14 x 18

When I was working on this collage I remembered my younger daughter, who is now an artist and a dreamer, dancing and singing to herself as I worked in my tulip bed. She has red hair and so I tried to capture the red of her hair and the red and orange of the tulips too.

Donated to the Mount Vernon Arts Commission

Rock and Roll

2010-01-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

Media: Mixed Media
Size: 16 x 20

Dragonflies

2010-01-02T06:37:00.000-08:00

Media: Oil/Acrylic Painting

Size: 14 x 18

I find it so sad that Dragonflies have such a short life. Because of that, it is important to me to capture their beauty while I can. Here in the Pacific North West the dragonflies are big and the garden is full of them swooping and souring out of the woods and across the lawns in bright flashes of color all summer long. They are attracted by the water in the nearby lake. There is a poem by Ashton Mill and a verse from it describes what I try to paint:

“The sun and wind combine to make

A million diamonds on my lake,

Ripple-flash echoes on my mill

My dragonflies are brighter still.”

Gullabaloo

2010-01-02T06:30:00.000-08:00

Media: Collage
Size: 16 x 20

Wave Dancer

2010-01-02T06:09:00.000-08:00

Media: Collage
Size: l6 x 20

Here the colors are fresh and bright. The sea is restless, comprising paper and cloth to create the waves. The aqua of the water is a pristine color I have seen as far north as the Hebridean Islands and south in the Mediterranean Sea also. The movement of the figure complements the rush of the waves. I tried to get the effect of light and happiness in the piece.

Snow Dancer

2010-01-02T06:07:00.000-08:00

Media: Collage
Size: l6 x 20

This collage is multilayered with paint and paper to create the coldness of the snow. The figure is light, yet there is a richness in the dress to contrast with the chill of the snow. The sky is heavy and sullen with the promise of more snow to come.

Wind Dancer

2010-01-02T06:06:00.000-08:00

Media: Collage
Size: l6 x 20

How do you capture an image of the wind? Here I have used the pale, cool colors, the easy spring of the uncomplicated figure, and the blowing of the light textured cloths to show the teasing power of the wind passing through the picture. I was attempting to portray the carefree, light feeling I remembered as a young girl whenever the wind blew.

Who Goes There

2009-12-31T10:31:00.001-08:00

On a recent private visit to an Alpaca farm in Washington State the owner allowed me to enter the enclosure with the Alpacas to take photos.
The animals gathered around me, curious and yet a bit nervous. Two of them stood slightly apart from the others, staring at me as if to say “Who are you, and what do you want?” One of them folded back her ears and the other stuck hers straight up, and that is the picture I tried to capture. Alpacas are gentle, inquisitive and intelligent animals whose private habits are very clean and orderly. They communicate with each other in soft little moans.

Lady Tree

2009-12-31T09:04:00.000-08:00

Imagine Taking a walk in the country, just after a new fall of snow when everything is crisp, white and silent. All you can hear is the crunch of your own footsteps in the snow. Suddenly, you hear a single bird singing in a tree above you. You stop, look up, and there

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