August 2024 Collection
ILLUMINATION
My partner Chris took me on two gorgeous camping trips in summer of 2024, to Pecos and Tres Piedras, New Mexico. I hadn’t camped since I was a child and was unsure if I would like sleeping in a tent, away from the internet. But both times I felt euphoric, freed, and deeply restored. In Tres Piedras we were blessed with a big full moon and Chris started a campfire. These paintings celebrate the two lights in the forest, one cool and one warm, one natural and one man made.
ANGEL
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
The full moon hanging above the trees and under the stars cast an angelic, cool light. In this painting I imagine the clouds as her wings and the lit up part of the ground as her skirt.
FIRESTARTER
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
In this painting my partner is starting a campfire. He looked very pensive but also practical with his headlamp. Seeing him lit up orange in the darkening blue light was very romantic.
moonrise
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
It’s hard to photograph a large full moon peeking through forest trees. I hoped to capture her moody and mesmerizing beauty in this painting.
DANCE
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
One magical practice I’m interested in is “scrying”, or gazing into a flickering natural form — fire, water, or light through trees — with relaxed eyes. Sometimes shapes or figures emerge from the dancing light.
PEARL
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
This painting is a more abstract look at the moon as a feminine light within the water element. I hope that exaggerating the cool colors of moonlight and the waviness of the trees, I blur the line between night sky and deep ocean.
WARMTH
16"x20" • acrylic on canvas • $850
For me this painting brings the sensory experience of my first adult campfire right back — the flickering light of the flame, the smell of wood burning amidst pine trees, and the warmth that called me towards it.