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Painted fabric, machine stitched. Inspired by many walks in forest preserves.

Stiffened fabric, surface design, paper collage, beading. My goddess series is about strong women. Some of these goddesses are from mythology and some are imagined by me. Solara was inspired by a friend who had great excitement about and traveled. Far for the best possible viewing of the August eclipse.

Hand-dyed & painted; machine stitched; wrapped on stretcher bars.

Surface design, paper collage. The Graffiti Trees series grew out of my love for birch trees. After the first Graffiti Trees piece, I wanted to see what these trees would look like in the sunset. Paper collage.

Hand-dyed & painted; machine stitched; wrapped on stretcher bars.

Hand-dyed, screened & layered fabrics; machine stitched. Part of traveling exhibit inspired by the Wallace Stevens poem, “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”.

Hand-dyed & snow-dyed fabric. Needle-felting; machine stitched.

Hand-dyed & discharged velvet, machine stitched.

Recycled materials, needle felted, machine stitched, beaded. Wrapped on stretcher bars. Inspired & created from a wool blanket given to me by friends after cleaning out a parent’s house.