Expressing love of wild things with color and line
Early in 2025 walking through a field feeling anxious about protecting wild places and things, I felt the compulsion to document and remember all that I love on this planet. Through this feeling emerged the question: How would one go about drawing every blade of grass? This is surely an impossible task - but perhaps I can capture the essence of every blade bending in the wind to be seen and appreciated by the viewer of the drawing.
In drawing and sculpting the things I see, the simple act of slowing down and noticing things seems like I am giving the subject a name in a way that it did not have before. I find refuge in this idea. With climate change we have so much to lose. This problem has intricacies on a scale that is far beyond what we could ever conceptualize in our current paradigm and the way our brains work. What is perhaps more frightening are the things we are at risk to lose that we are not yet aware of.
All of my pottery is thrown first on the wheel and then sculpted on when the pots become "leather hard". The motifs used in my pieces are often of the creepy crawly nature because I find the anatomy of insects, frogs, and lizards lend themselves very well to clinging to the clay.
These giclee prints are color-matched locally by the experts at The Painted Pixel in the Denver West 40 Arts District and printed onto premium archival quality watercolor paper. Currently I have a selection of 10 prints availble from my show Every Blade of Grass.
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