Here's a taste of some recent available work. I'll post more soon.
Contact me to purchase or for more info.
Contact me to purchase or for more info.
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Cake Walk 12" diameter x 6" deep $325 
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This piece is inspired by the main form, a vintage cake cover. There’s an occasional barn sale in the Anderson Valley near Boonville that I finally timed right to peek in, and scored this oddity. The simple metal design is highlighted with paints, sewn ribbons, old cloth measuring tape, tinted Japanese manuscript, feathers, and half of the little wooden handle.
May your day be “a piece of cake!’ |
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Aqua Formation 14" x 11" x 1" $375 
Made in 2023.
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One of my Vintage Muffin Tin Series, the forms of this tin are so lovely. I wanted to keep the composition simple to show them off. Some of my latest local beach finds are mounted in each cup. I enhanced the tin with handmade good luck papers, paint, and beeswax. I wonder what delicious goodies were baked and enjoyed from this vintage pan? And who was the baker?
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Rustic Ocean Bowl 12 1/4" diameter x 4" deep $325 Made in 2021. Roundness is a satisfying shape. These various bowls certainly hold a lot of mystery. The outer tin bowl, light weight and dinged up must have served many a meal. The middle rippled edge one (brushed with paint) is a colander with a copper bottom. And the center aluminum vessel filled with our local sea glass is the crucial portion of a small egg poaching pot I discovered on the porch of an abandoned antique shop in Mt. Shasta. |
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Tea Time
8 1/4" diameter x 3" $265 
Made in 2023.
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A tea cup handle found on the beach inspired this piece! Glass and ceramic finds cozily fill the mini pie tin. Chinese manuscript rice paper and leaves embedded on the lid of an old pan act as a supportive saucer. Tinted surfaces and capiz shell shapes add grace.
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Collection of Aqua with Ladle 10 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 3" $265 A small muffin tin is the perfect form to showcase these beach found ceramics, glass and tidbits. I covered the tin with marked rice papers and accents of paint. The mini ladle with weathered wooden handle filled with glass treasures is a sweet focal point. I especially like the designs and textures of the shards within the ladle. 
Made in 2023.
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A New Day 27" x 16" x 4" $525 A New Day, indeed. One of the first pieces I made during shelter in place. A vintage washboard, harkening back to simpler times, is the main form. The mystery round tin is an old music disc I found in the dust of a ghost town. Other ingredients are a tin star to light the way, old foreign coins, buttons, ribbons, paper, local sea glass and beeswax. 
Sideview with layers of ribbon, paint, paper and beeswax. 2019
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"Blue Mandala" 13" diameter x 3 1/2" $375 SOLD This new piece is a personal favorite. It’s constructed on an old Chinese Checkers metal game board. It patiently evolved on a studio table as I tried out compositions using various oddities. Finally, the fancy metal trivet made it sing, especially with added color. I enhanced the original faded game board with gentle sanding, paint, sewn paper edging and encaustic beeswax. I love the center layers of round metal filters with variations of tiny dots. Other items are local sea glass, old buttons, and an old pan lid. 
Sideview
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"Golden Egg"
13 1/2" x 10" x 2" $375 SOLD I heard and read many tales as a child. Aesop’s Fables, The Goose with the Golden Egg still rings true to me to this day. A fellow artist saved a little dual oval frame she found, in the gutter of all places, knowing I’d use it. The shape lead me to create this golden piece. Digging into my treasure box I found another oval ivory colored vintage frame, perfect! Many other ingredients include a vintage leather encyclopedia cover and an old foreign book with embossed markings, an old locket, good luck coins, an old key, papers, ornate tacks, and of course, the page from Aesop’s Fables, who’s childhood book had been a patron of mine.
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ROYALITY Series
This Royality Series all started when an antique dealer saw my work in Petaluma. She asked me to wait a minute, as she ran to her basement for a stack of old Bridge card game dealer boards. ”I’ve been waiting for the perfect person to give these to!” They’ve turned out to be an interesting creative exercise. The boards are an unusual form with their irregular slots that held a deck of cards, which adds to the quirkiness. More added ingredients are other game pieces (Checkers, Poker, and Bingo), local sea glass and ceramic finds, old buttons, children’s blocks, ribbon, and a few mystery items. The old 78 rpm black records are the perfect complement as bases. (The record collection is called The Naughty Nineties, from 1890’s!)
"Royal Red"
12" x 10" x 3"
$235
"Royal Blue"
10" diameter x 2" $185 |
Sideview
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"Royal YES"
10" diameter x 2" $185 |
"Royal Green"
8 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 2 1/2" $185 |
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“Kisses” 13" x 13" x 4" $245 This heart shaped wire basket is filled with dried grass roots I found blowing across local sand dunes. They easily formed into this shape, wrapped with threads and ribbons. Other items include a vintage hand clasp, a section of an old poem stitched with golden thread, feathers, and a poppy seed head. (The poem came from a vintage book, Crown Jewels, dated 1887.) |
“Home Sweet Home”
10 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/2"
$125
A stack of vintage Bingo board games recently came my way. This is mounted on another game, a black holder for Bridge cards. I formed a sweet nest with local sand dune grasses and thread. The lovely poem comes from a vintage book, Crown Jewels, dated 1887. A metal stem like shape from an old organ, G# in fact, holds the poem. Other items are misc. hearts and I believe, an owl feather.
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“Love Letters” 18" x 6 1/2" x 4" $310 SOLD Some years ago I found this old mailbox and immediately attached a metal heart to it, knowing I would call it Love Letters. It has hung on my studio walls and at times has been a place holder at shows, when other pieces have sold. It holds plenty of weathered mystery too. Now is the perfect time to actually have made the full piece for this February show. I shaped the pressed heart from copper and dipped it in healing hot springs waters (which patina’d the metal) then sealed it with beeswax. Other ingredients are fragments of an Argentinian letter from 1902, vintage paper, bells, the end of a fancy key, the top of a Balinese parasol, and a feather. 
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“Vintage Zinnia” 18" x 13" x 1" $285 From my series inspired by vintage seed packets dated 1915. The central section is coated in beeswax. Other ingredients are an old lace handkerchief, buttons, ribbons, stamps, silk tassel, and shell. Mounted on board with handmade paper and edged with thin golden ribbon. |
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"Grateful with Green Lid" $225 Grate-ful (grat’ful) pleasing, also thankful (< L. gratus: see grace), + -ful. One of my Grateful Series, inspired from vintage graters. I enjoy using well loved elements from our daily life. Play on words is always fun too. Metal kitchen gadgets, especially baking tins and tools catch my eye when out scavenging. |
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Secrets of the Stars 13" x 29" x 5" $600 Trunks and old luggage hold much mystery. This is half of a 1920’s travel suitcase. The focal point may be the old brass flowered trivet mounted on a leather poetry book cover. The colored fabric is the back of a vintage photo album from the 1900’s World’s Fair, complete with ornate clasp. I finished the sides with Indian ribbon. Other ingredients include the wooden Asian top along with natural and metal oddities. 
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