False Guarded charcoal on birch Panel 30 x 20 False Guarded is part of a broader series examining generational trauma and the ways inherited pain can shape the emotional lives of women. The work focuses on a survival response born from repeated hurt: the decision to abandon vulnerability in favor of protection. What begins as a necessary coping mechanism gradually becomes a defining structure, allowing fear to dictate the terms of one’s life. The figure is held in a defensive posture, one arm raised and rigid, slowly transforming into a tree-like form. This stance reflects emotional petrification—the point at which self-guarding hardens into permanence. Shelf fungi grow along the raised arm, referencing their tendency to thrive on trees that appear healthy but are hollowing on the inside. The imagery becomes a metaphor for carrying pain quietly, maintaining strength and functionality while emotional pain remains unseen. The opposite arm lowers, exposing an open wrist to a snake winding upward along the body. The snake symbolizes fear, persistent, intimate, and increasingly influential when left unchallenged. Rather than confronting or releasing it, the figure allows it space, illustrating how fear can become familiar and inviting. Rendered in charcoal on wood, the work emphasizes time, resistance, and accumulation. The medium resists erasure, mirroring the emotional labor of women who survive by becoming immovable, rooted in endurance, shaped by inherited trauma, and suspended between protection and the possibility of transformation. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Mother Nature in Control oil on canvas with seed beads 16 x 16 Mother Nature controls the natural world. She nurtures, but she has the power to destroy. Mother Nature represents the interconnection of the living. My piece was inspired by this power and the fact that this power, throughout time, has been personified as being female. My Mother Nature in within the wings of a dove and she is wrapped in floral growth. She is within the darkness of night. She is powerful. She is with what is good. She is our story. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

She Commands the Current oil on canvas 16 x 12 This work honors my woman ancestors—those whose strength, intelligence, and intuitive ways of knowing were often unrecognized or unnamed. Their legacy is carried forward through the body, through perception, and through an increasing attunement to unseen forces. The electrical lines extending outward suggest transmission as much as reception: the figure absorbs cosmic energy while simultaneously radiating it back into the world. I dedicate this to my late mother, a woman who was a conduit of power, perception, and inherited knowledge. She stands beneath a luminous moon, her gaze lifted and unwavering, as if listening to frequencies beyond the visible world. The currents radiating from her head are both electric and ancestral—visual manifestations of intuition sharpened over time and wisdom accumulated through lived experience. The moon functions as a cosmic anchor, symbolizing cyclical time, memory, and the enduring presence of those who came before. Its craters echo the marks of age on the figure’s face, reinforcing the idea that time leaves evidence not as damage, but as history. The woman’s crossed arms and grounded posture convey authority and self-possession. She is not passive beneath the cosmos; she is in dialogue with it. Aging, in this painting, is depicted as an expansion of consciousness. With time comes a heightened sensitivity to patterns, rhythms, and truths that transcend the individual self. This figure embodies the idea that as we age, we grow closer to the cosmos—not by leaving the body behind, but by fully inhabiting it, charged with memory, lineage, and luminous awareness. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Posing bronze on marble base 12 x 3 x 5 I saw a photo of a model posing - self assured, and confident in her image. Posing, the sculpture, reflects how we want to be seen, even if it is only in our imagination. The piece was created in clay, then a rubber mold was poured over the clay. the mold goes to a casting foundry where a wax is created and a bronze poured. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Sisters watercolor and gouache on 300-lb cold-press Aquarelle paper 30 x 22 "Sisters" is about the sisterhood of friends. It's how we lean on other for comfort and wisdom, how we stick by each other through hardship and even joy. The bonds that women form as chosen friends are sometimes stronger than those we form with family. We know each other in special way that's to be celebrated. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.    

Presence and The Past acrylic 24 x 24 My work explores the intersection of individual presence and collective history, navigating the nuanced complexities of the feminine perspective. I paint women engaged in introspection, inhabiting a space where reflection intersects with lived experience. Through a process of layering and refinement, an interplay between color, form, and surface depth is revealed. This physical history serves as a metaphor, honoring the influence of women whose stories weave the fabric of shared legacy. By prioritizing the female gaze, I visualize the 'seen and unseen' — embodying the resonance between the external world and the internal life of the figure. Additional shipping/delivery charges will be handled between the artist and buyer after the purchase.