My Heart takes Flight

I painted this in February for Valentine's Day and it just never felt finished.  So today I reworked it. 


Acrylic on Canvas 
16 x 20
May be done?

In a Golden Wood

A Friend gave me a beautiful wooden textile stamp and I had to play with it.  Look carefully and you'll find it worked into the background.




Acrylic Collage on Canvas

36 x 18

Reverence &: Doubt

Thinning Veils
Collage 14 x 11
A Triscelle superimposed over
a Celtic Cross symbolizing
the melding of the Old and New
religions

Art Show Kicks Off WICA Theater Series Performance

Art Reception ~ Friday, April 6th at 6:00 p.m.

In the Lobby at WICA • Free & Open to the Public

WICA will host “Reverence,” an exhibit of works by local artists (listed below), with an art reception Friday evening in the lobby. This fabulous art show serves as a prelude on the opening night of Doubt, A Parable, by John Patrick Shanley,

“Reverence” will remain in the WICA lobby until the end of April.

“Reverence” curator Cary Jurriaans says this about the art show:

“In our society, where movement is constant, the visual arts are revered as it gives us time for some pure and serene stillness that cannot be found elsewhere. In my opinion, the goal of the artist is to create beauty.”

Featured Artists:

Judith Burns • Faye Castle • Cary Jurriaans • Barbara Kelly

Earl Lasher • Pamela Mathues • Claudia Pettis • David Price

Phyllis Ray • Sandy Rubini • Deborah Short • Pat McVay

Lois Mathew • Gaylen Whiteman • Hamid Zavereei

Sunrise at Clonmacnoise
Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14

Mystical Ireland Series to be shown are:
Thinning Veils
Sunrise at Clonmacnoise 
Carraig Phadraig

Clonmacnoise  was founded in Co. Offaly on the Shannon River by St. Ciaran in the 540’s A.D.. 

One of the monasteries most famous products of its scriptorium was the book of Dun Cow (Lebor na hUidre), the earliest known example of literature written in the Irish language.

The year we visited there had been a lot of rain causing the Shannon to flood. 

                

Carraig Phadraig
Acrylic on Canvas 11 x 14

Carraig Phadraig or Rock of Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.  One of Ireland’s early kings, Brian Boru, reigned from Cashel, where he was a noted patron of the arts. 

It is an amazing site.  As we drove North on a very flat road all of a sudden a huge hill appears in front of us with it's incredible buildings.

O'Brien's Tower

Working on something mystical and magical for March.  Remembering the Cliff's of Mohr and the Victorian viewing tower on the opposite cliff.

O'Briens Tower
Acrylic on Canvas
16 x 20

My Mind took a Walk

Memories of last summer, the beautiful foliage, the warmth of the sun, and the birds.


My Mind took a Walk
Collage on canvas
11 x 14

Hello Whidbey

Sitting on the Ferry floating back  to our home on Whidbey Island I notice all the unique ferry shapes and think they might translate to a painting.

Hello Whidbey

Acrylic on canvas

11 x 14

Artists of South Whidbey have chosen this image to use on their Art Education Fund Cards for 2012.

Lagoon at Dawn

A Whidbey Scene inspired by a photograph of a beautiful orange sunset shared by a friend.  

Lagoon at Dawn 
Acrylic painting on canas 
15 x 30