A Molly Dog collage

Collage artist trading card and small hanging piece

Collage photo frame

Welcome

Guests to the Artist Child's home are always welcome...especially the non-human and those armed with art!

It Is Done

A Mono-print.

A friend, who must soon leave her albeit temporarily , tells the Artist Child "Forever this is done" as they look back to see how far they have come!

What am I Doing?

Questioning herself in mid-air the Artist Child takes a leap of faith...are cool green meadows in the distance?

Calm is the Vantage Point

Mixed media and Acrylic on canvas.

Dancing on a ladder in space near the pointy planet of her origin with scary incoming 'stuff' - the challenges of life; the little Artist Child IS!

Clarity and Resolution

Oh these characters again....I love them, always wanted to design them and thought I couldn't and then I just did. The border reads "When clarity and resolution are beyond one's present grasp, what to do...standing on the wire call for help."

Portrait of the Artist

Halo and horns - just like everyone else, that's me. Can you love me if I am not perfect?

The Point

A mixed media diptych.

With only my trusty socks as companions, I relax in my comfy over stuffed chair, teetering on the top of a very pointy place with interesting incoming 'challenges'...I am fine I am me I am calm!

Distracted

A comment on our T.V. watching ways, who is more important here the box or the person? It is said the best gift we can give another soul is our presence! The present is presence.

Trees Take Care of This

Acrylic and collage on canvas.

I release what needs to leave me in the belief that trees absorb this negative stuff and give back to the world - GOOD. I do however really like what Louise L. Hay has to say about breathing in - good and breathing out - good as well. Both work! I give thanks for trees.

Here

Acrylic and collage on canvas.

Dancing in a barren place she orchestrates her own magic...she is alone but so strong...so happy!

Happy No Matter What

Relaxed in an easy chair I sit, though balanced on the very top of a precarious place. The peaks crumble and erupt yet I am CALM!

Contemplating the Journey

Wearing the red dress of passion the Artist Child bound, to a place smooth, familiar but cold, by a large tack, looks over the terrain. Should she leave? Between her and the field of flowers, one of which she holds, is a dangerous place of crevasses and shadows! Can she traverse this or is her fear to much for her to overcome?

Friends Indeed

Such supportive friends in a balancing act high above an unfriendly environment. They wear their hearts on their sleeves and can be trusted. Art, in the form of the paint brush, protects them and directs their songs!

Lovingly Looked After

Okay ...yes I'm a Disney fan! I was a little girl once who delighted in "Fantasia" and, here is proof, "Sleeping Beauty". To rest peacefully in the cherishing gazes of those who love you ...how great is that? But they're not human you say...

You Never Have to go Back There Again

This kingly character carries the tired Artist Child from the barren landscape. He comforts her in the telling "It is done" and will turn again to continue on the trek to where it is green and wonderful!

A Place to Go

As a small child I used to imagine living on the ceiling, here I, as the Artist Child, can escape into the chair, finding a better world all my own...books and art await me there!

Being Curious on the Journey

There is danger here, no doubt, for the Artist Child, however there is COLOR, a sense of excitement and encouragement from two fellow travelers. They are on their way - to where...is the question.

Calm

As a note to myself I am reminded to BREATHE be calm! The border reads "I can be calm here I tell myself. I paint...paint because ... this is my bliss. I am knowing my thoughts are for me to be calm."

A Family of New Friends

This tight knit family of unusual characters offers an odd comfort to the Artist Child. Gifts of art (the paint brush) and magic are forth coming as well as a new and true friendship.

My Dream

Completely surrounded by ocean waves, a dire situation - I dance ...I am CALM

Interactions

Don't complain, don't explain - just listen....

New Found Friends

New friends are a good thing. These non human characters are not completely benign, however she/me knows where she stands with them and has her art, in the form of the paintbrush, to protect her.

Chaos to Calm

If we find the CALM outside will we be calm? Is it outside of us ...inside of us... or is it blessedly both we must strive for?

Now Now

Infinite heavens above, boundless expanse to each side, limitless oceans below...my mind rests!

To Miss

Ah well...this doesn't need words...

Connection

This painting reads "It is as if we are asleep when heart and mind are separate, cannot see, cannot speak, should intuition and intellect work at odds...listen to you with all your heart."

Mourning to Morning

A triptych.

A young women still a girl, with strange hieroglyphics on her gown, looks to a spiral shape in the distance, is it God? The two panels on either side read "I am my own knight in shining 'armour'. I am my own night, I am my own morning, mourning...waking to morning." This triptych speaks to all those who have lost a child. We smile again!

Mergers

The question of the Feminine merging into the Masculine. She loses herself and longs for her hands to 'draw' or paint or direct her out. She has handed over her power!

Off to Greener Pastures

There is Promise in the distance and friends, odd but comfortable non human friends, to help...does the Artist Child risk their assistance? Does she move slowly in the direction of "greener pastures"? What if she stays put?

Help is on The Way

Help is coming for the Artist Child, albeit questionably human or otherwise, but safe and somehow otherworldly. Help is help none the less. She sees this assistance is available and doesn't resist though the source is unusual.

No More Tension Only Excitment

The Artist Child, dressed in red, the color of passion and life, dances though atop the very tip top of a crumbling peak. Danger in the distance, her foothold unsure...still she dances and looks to a bright yet unknown future!

The Dance

Not human, yet safe, this noble character cherishes and protects the innocent artist child. The duality of her presence versus his distance and the chill of the meager planet versus the backdrop of the playful fireworks in the sky... are reflections of...? Still they dance!

The Choice

On tip toes and looking contemplative, my Artist Child is directed by her winged friend to look at her choices...the Unknown - that which is free and uplifting, embodied in the Hot Air balloon, or the gloomy certainties in either staying put on a crumbling cliff or climbing down the rope into darkness.

Nevermore

I am really loving these characters that come into my work.

This painting is especially joyful for me! My Artist Child is relaxed and happy here. Her future is bright, her past behind her. They both bid "Adieu" to harsh lands never to return. Her flower treasure though, of the present moment, is what interests her most. Could it be she can forget?