Available May 3rd

Encaustic Art Institute of Santa Fe, NM

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12 × 12 inches

oil and cold wax on linen canvas + ACM panel

2025

$1,200

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What I LOVE about this painting:

Working in wax is where my creative journey began. When I closed a chapter in my life, ending an intensive career that had me on the verge of emotional and physical collapse, I turned to painting for healing and renewal. Through a friend, I had become aware of the beauty and technical challenges of painting with bees wax and became enamored of the process. To me, it represented everything I needed in that moment: a reconnection with nature (bees!), the opportunity to pour my considerable energy into a physically demanding creative process, and a place to channel my intellectual curiosity as I familiarized myself with an ancient art form. What’s more, it was a way to express myself - my angst and my exhaustion, my joy and my optimism - in layer upon layer of liquid, lushly pigmented wax. For all of these reasons and more, incorporating wax - hot or cold - into my paintings will always remind me of a moment in time where I came to a crossroads: I could yield to pain and loss, or I could choose hope and self-determination. I chose the latter, and my life has been the more beautiful for it.

Available August 1st, 2025

‘Women’s Work’ Exhibition and Sale

Cowgirl Artists of America + A.R. Mitchell Museum

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16 × 20 inches

oil on linen canvas

2025

$2,700

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What I LOVE about this painting:

If a kitchen is the heart of a home, then a barn must surely be the heart of the farm.

Built by hand, using beams and lumber cut on site from trees harvested on the very land that surrounds it. This beautiful barn has sheltered horses and donkeys and cows, has protected revolving collections of saddles and harnesses and gear, and kept tons of alfalfa hay bone dry year after year after year.

To the family who owns it, it’s part of the fabric of home. It’s hayloft aglow with warmth and history, a place to celebrate weddings and holidays and milestone events.

To the surrounding Island community, it’s a place for hanging garlands of flowers, for exchanging vows by candle light and dancing under the stars to welcome in a future of love.

The magic here is everywhere. It’s on the land in in the trees. The memory of voices and laughter and music held within every board and bolt.

I’ve been lucky to feel the warmth of this beautiful old barn with my own hands. To feel her strength and permanence. To walk through and feel welcomed. And, I’ve had the joy of witnessing the morning sun chase the chill of night from her heavy bones, one golden beam of light at a time.

A miniature master copy after the original painting by renowned American painter, W. Herbert “Buck” Dunton (1878-1936).

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6 × 6 inches

oil on cradled panel

2025

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The Importance of the Master Copy:

In art, a “master copy” refers to a new artwork created by an artist, typically a painting, that is a faithful reproduction of an earlier work by a master artist, often one they admire. These copies are primarily for learning and studying the techniques, styles, and composition of the master artist. Master copies are generally not intended for sale. The process of making a master copy can be a valuable tool for artists to improve their skills and develop a deeper understanding of the process. To copy the earlier works of a master artist is a well accepted practice within the classical tradition of art. Great painters before us have emphasized the practice and use of copying as a major component within academic atelier training.