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GOOD WARM LIGHT

Named after Frida Kahlo’s description of the color green in her writings from 1957: ‘el verde - luz tibia y buena’. Various green organisms tend to their ecological niches. Shown in the 2025 Babe Walls Women’s History Month Show in Denver’s RiNo Art Park and at the Silverthorne Performing Arts Center for the Town of Silverthorne’s 2025 Botanical Art Installation.

Good Warm Light, acrylic on birch

An Anna’s hummingbird tends to her nest amongst vibrant and drying maidenhair and lady ferns. Young steelhead venture from their natal streams to the ocean before returning again, again, and again, all within one lifetime. A chorus frog climbs towards Darlingtonia pitcher plants, who prefer the challenging conditions of serpentine.

Devil’s hole pupfish persist as survivors in a vanishing habitat. Epicormic redwood sprouts burst about after fire. A peridot sweat bee humbly rests from her work. A rough green snake quietly shines, having shed her skin in rebirth. A powerful green darner dragonfly dances through their brilliant and transitional lifecycle.

Nurturing, renewing, and continuing on through while carrying mutual care, the coexistence of hope and grief, and many gleams of good, warm light.

MEMORIA

An ongoing community portrait series of folks’ sense of place through the lenses of art, advocacy, and the natural world. These pieces have evolved from printed photographs + hand-drawn elements (Phase 1) to hand-drawn portraits (Phase 2). Phase 3 will feature hand-drawn portraits + hand-drawn elements, joining the first two phases. Portraits have been shown in solo exhibitions at PlatteForum (2025) Bell Projects Denver and Art Gym Denver (2024), and at group shows at the Art District on Santa Fe; the 41st Annual All Colorado Show at the Curtis Center for the Arts, CO; the Brinton Museum in Bighorn, WY; the Niza Knoll Gallery for MoPrint, CO; and BRDG Project, CO.

Phase 2 (Above)

Each individual is hand-drawn with ballpoint pen, then printed with platinum-palladium. Platinum prints are created using light-sensitive chemicals, cotton paper, and exposure to the sun, an historic archival process invented in the 1800s. The noble metals bind directly to the paper; therefore the prints, if properly cared for, can last thousands of years, outliving the individual.

Phase 1 (Below)

I photographed the individual, printed their portraits with platinum-palladium, and added hand-painted elements inspired by their stories. All pieces are 22 inches x 30 inches on 100% cotton Revere 320 gsm Platinum Paper. Click on each piece to learn more!

BIRDS ON SHELLS

A new series of paintings exploring animals that look alike but would likely never interact.

PEN & INK

 BODNER SERIES

A series of large-scale ocean organism paintings inspired by Lord Bodner’s 19th Century copper engraving of a giant Pacific Octopus. All pieces are hand drawn on acrylic using white paint pens.