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PENNSYLVANIA

I live in two beautiful places: Montgomery County, Pennsylvania in the fall, winter and spring, and Corea, Maine in the summer.  Over the years, I have loved and painted both.  Wooded walks in an area known locally as Stone Hill as well as along the Perkiomen Trail have been the inspiration for many paintings of Pennsylvania.  


LATE DAY: SWAMP CREEK, 2008
Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30”
Collection of the Artist



PERKIOMEN TRAIL, 2007
Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30”
Collection of the Artist

GOLDEN LIGHT ON SWAMP CREEK, 2012
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”
Collection of the Artist


MILL POND SERIES VII: NINE VIEWS
2005, Acrylic on Nine Canvases,
56” x 56”, Private Collection

MILL POND SERIES IV: AFTERNOON
 2005, Acrylic on Two Canvas
24” x 72”, Collection of the Artist


MAINE

For many years, my husband and I spent summers on a seven acre island about a half mile from the harbor of Corea.  After we grew older, we built a house on the mainland and I began to paint the surrounding area:  The Mill Pond, a peaceful salt water pond and its small island, the blueberry fields which turn brilliant scarlet in autumn, the islands beyond our harbor, and the dramatic skies, rocks and water of the Schoodic Peninsula, part of Acadia National Park.  


Mill Pond Series VII, depicts nine views of  a small island at the edge of the Mill Pond.  It is a work consisting of nine separate canvases that shows the island at different times of day and tide and celebrates its beauty, peacefulness, and changeability.  There is a cohesiveness to the nine panels that comes partly from the placement of the horizon line: low in the top three, centered in the middle three, and high in the lower three.


Because one can walk to the island from mid to low tide, the Mill Pond island is for me  a potent symbol of the perfect balance of independence and connectedness.  It holds the alluring magical apartness of an island while still being easily reachable.  One can be alone there, but not isolated.  


One group of Mill Pond paintings, which includes Mill Pond Series: Round Rock III, focuses on rocks that are often round and in the middle of the canvas.  These centered rocks represent a state of peacefulness, balance and “centeredness.”




SKY REFLECTIONS, 2014, Permanent Marker on Paper  11.75” x 11.75”, Collection of the Artist

ORANGE CANOPY, 2014, Permanent Marker on
Paper,  11.25” x 7.25”, Collection of the Artist

CHICKEN MILL POND AUTUMN, 2013
Permanent Marker on Paper
5” x 5”, Collection of the Artist

STONE HILL LIGHT AND SHADOW, 2013
Permanent Marker on Paper
7.75” x 7.75”, Private Collection

PERMANENT MARKER PAINTINGS

In recent years, I have worked primarily in acrylic paint on canvas.  In the last few years, I have also been painting with permanent markers and I find the colors and technique to be freeing and playful.  The marker paintings explore a very different kind of linear and pointillist texture than that of the paintings.





AUTUMN FIELD, 2015, Permanent Marker on Paper 11.75” x 11.75”, Collection of the Artist

MILL POND SERIES: ROUND ROCK III
2006, Acrylic on Canvas
30” x 30”, Private Collection

SCHOODIC ROCK II, 2007, Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 24”, Collection of the Artist

WONSQUEAK: LATE AFTERNOON, 2008, Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30”, Collection of the Artist
24” x 24”, Collection of the Artist

WESTERN ISLAND: EARLY MORNING CLOUDS 2008, Acrylic on Three Canvases
36” x 48”, Collection of the Artist

MILL POND REFLECTIONS, 2013
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”, Collection of the Artist

SCHOODIC EVENING I, 2013
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”, Private Collection

SCHOODIC EVENING II, 2013
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”, Private Collection

SCHOODIC EVENING IV, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas, 24” x 24”, Private Collection


THE BAY BEYOND, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
20” x 20”, Collection of the Artist

BEAVER POND, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
18” X 18”, Private Collection


FIELD AND SEA, 2014, Acrylic on Canvas
18” x 18”, Private Collection

SCHOODIC EVENING V, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”, Collection of the Artist

SCHOODIC EVENING VI, 2014
Acrylic on Canvas, 18” x 18”
Collection of the Artist