Native Arts

Native Arts

Native Arts Medium: Watercolor, Image Size: 23 1/2″h x 15 1/2″w, 2002. I set up this still life of authentic Native American crafts that were in the collection of my sister and brother-in-law. I loved the shapes, colors, textures, and designs of the...
Vicarious Healer

Vicarious Healer

The Vicarious Healer Medium: Watercolor, Image Size: 16”h x 12”w, 2020. This painting is a depiction of compassion. In this artwork I am both the cancer patient and the compassionate healer-the Rainbow Dragon. The dragon is my all-empowered warrior – my symbol of...
Live or Die

Live or Die

Live or Die Medium: Pencil, Image Size: 19″h x 16″w, 2007. The drawing is a symbolic story about choosing to live or die as I experienced it. These were the choices I struggled with when I found out I had advanced uterine cancer and needed to do...
Limber Pine Root Study

Limber Pine Root Study

Limber Pine Root Study Medium: Pencil, Image Size: 12″h x 16″w, 1985. This pencil study of a Limber Pine root was drawn on location on the east side of the White Mountains, near Boundary Peak, Nevada. These trees can live up to 4,000 years, so I can only...
Limber Pine Root

Limber Pine Root

Limber Pine Root Medium: Mixed Aqueous, Image Size: 23″h x 28″w, 1985. This is the overturned root of a dead Limber Pine (notice the rock). I love complex, contorted shapes, so when I hiked past this ancient limber pine root, I wanted to do a painting of...