WORK > LACE PAINTINGS

As a figurative painter, I’ve chosen the representation of the female form as my primary means of exploring the tension between the seen and the unseen, and its relevance to female identity. I often paint on lace fabric, a symbol of traditional domestic roles and accepted forms of creative expression for women. Lace also serves as a veil to true identity, and subtly references the universal female experience of covering, and cautiously uncovering, parts of the self that may not be readily embraced by the culture. I learned sewing and needlework at an early age, and enjoy incorporating these traditional art forms, pushing them beyond their intended use. A lifelong love of language figures into my current work as well.

Heavy Wait
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2023
Do It Any Way
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2024
If Not You Who
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2024
Sweet Sweat
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2022
If And When
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2024
Careful
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2023
What Now
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2022
Not This Knot
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2023
Begin Again
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2023
Behave Belong
Oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2023
Work is Never Done
oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2022
Work Hard
oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
16" x 32" diptych
2022
Ire/Desire
oil and acrylic on lace and canvas
30" x 48" diptych
2021
Notorious
oil on canvas and lace
30" x 48" diptych
2021
Notorious II
oil on lace and canvas
31" x 25"
2020
Watchful
oil on lace and panel
30" x 24"
2016
Oil portrait on lace
oil on lace
30" x 24"
2014
Oil portrait on lace
oil on lace
30" x 24"
2011
oil portrait on lace
oil on lace
30" x 24"
2014
Presentiment
oil on lace and canvas
30" x 24"
2016
oil portrait on lace
oil on lace
36" x 24"
2016
Lull
oil on lace and canvas
30" x 24"
2016
Oil portrait on lace
oil on lace and paper
30" x 48"
2014
Pause
oil on lace and canvas
32" x 52"
2016