Through, for Philip
65×60” oil on canvas
Through, for Philip (detail)
Detail of small figure pulling another person in a rubber raft into a canyon. Detail is approx. 30×24”
Looking over the Wall
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
This walled garden has a damp, dark, heavy wall, one that suggests a long duration holding the garden in and the outside world out.
Nocturne, The Family
60×48” oil on canvas
2026
private collection
Looking over the Wall (side view)
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
In the Walled Garden
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
I am making a series of paintings about walled gardens, following a visit to the Huntington. Their garden is surrounded by a thick white wall, and you traverse a beautiful patterned stone path up down and around the vistas. What is the role of a walled garden in the lives of women who were hobbled intentionally?
An interesting thing about beauty is its depth. Things are arresting because of the pain and complexity they express. We sit with their beauty at the same time as we sit with the power structures that brought them into the world. It's impossible to reconcile.
In the Walled Garden (side view)
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
The Walled Garden, Cad Yellow
24×18” oil on panel
2026
Leaving the Walled Garden
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
The walled garden is an apt metaphor for women’s lives, throughout history and into the present day. While women have gradually increasing access to power, the continual effort of working our way out of our (sometimes beautiful) cages is a toll that women carry silently.
The new fence
10×8” oil on panel, 2025
Putting up new fences in the walled garden.
Nocturne, Summer Dusk
60×48” oil on canvas
2026
private collection
Nocturne, for Holling
60×48” oil on canvas
2026
A series of these paintings of Nocturnes is unfolding over this year. They explore the notion of empty space and solitude being empty and full at the same time. They reference both Tonalism and color field painting, as well as painting prompts from the Song Dynasty.
The Philosopher Sets Off
Oil on canvas, 65×60”. 2025
Self Portrait as a Mountain
Oil on canvas, 60×48”. 2025
This painting shows two figures in conversation, while trees, as if after a flood, stream alongside their bodies/the mountains.
Self Portrait as a Mountain, detail
full painting is 60×48”, oil on canvas, 2025. Detail here is roughly 30×30”.
This painting shows two figures in conversation, while trees, as if after a flood, stream alongside their bodies/the mountains.
Nocturne
Oil on canvas, 60×48”. 2025 Available through slip house
Our Self Portrait as a Mountain
48×36” oil on panel 2025
High Distance, She Goes
24×18” oil on panel
2025
The high distance is a construct from Song dynasty painting, used to suggest being able to see the full height of a mountain in a painting, while also experiencing entry points at a middle distance and a level distance. From a western optical perspective this is wonderfully impossible, except at great distance. I love the emotional resonance of climbing a full mountain in a painting.
Leaving, the High Distance
24×18” oil on panel
2025
High Distance, Eucalyptus
24×18” Oil on panel
2026
Many of the mountain paintings I make end up referencing a California foothill I have climbed countless times. This one conjures up the heat, shade, and perfume of the eucalyptus groves halfway up the hill, which then gives way to coastal scrub. In California there is no greater sign of the hubris of Manifest Destiny than the invasive eucalytpus, highly flammable and useless for its intended purpose: 19th c. railroad ties.
The High Distance, Eucalyptus
detail 3×5”
24×18” Oil on panel
2026
Someone coming up the path greets a new baby being carried down the path.
The High Distance, Cad Red
20×16” oil on panel
2026
Italian Walk, Via Appia - The Toy
Oil on panel, 36×36”. 2024.
A child throwing a weight on a string walking along the Via Appia at dusk.
Italian Walk, Via Appia
48×36” oil on panel with cold wax varnish. 2024.
A painting of the Vestals and visitors resting at an imagined retreat along the via Appia in ancient Rome.
Through, Spring
48×36” oil on panel, 2024.
Through, Early Spring
48×36” oil on canvas, 2025
The Philosopher and her Child walk home
48x36" oil on panel, 2023.
Self Portrait as a Mountain, Loving
48×36” oil on panel, 2025
This painting is a bit of an oddball, and I love it.
Through, Together
2024, Oil on panel 20×16” available through slip house
SP as a Mountain, Thicket
24×18” oil on panel, 2025
Girl's Night, Coast
12x16” oil on panel
The Mountains
30x22" oil on paper, 2023.
The Conversation
30x22" oil on paper, 2023.
The Guides
30x22" oil on paper, 2023.
The Journey
30x22" oil on paper, 2023.
Philosophers in the Clearing
20x16" oil on panel, 2024.
The Philosophers Confer
24x18" oil on panel, 2024.
The Walled Garden, Cad Yellow
24×18” oil on panel
2026
Getting a Boost
12x12” oil on panel, 2025
The walled garden is an apt metaphor for women’s lives, throughout history and into the present day. While women have gradually increasing access to power, the continual effort of working our way out of our cages is a toll that women carry silently. In this painting, Getting a boost, one woman boosts another over the wall of a garden on the right side of the painting.