The waters of the Maine coast are full of mermaid magic in my painting about reclaiming wildness and freedom of soul. If you look closely at the two figures you can see that it’s the same woman, and the young mermaid is calling the older woman back to the sea, back to her true self. …
This is a small portrait of a new bride’s mother in law putting finishing touches on the wedding gown. The wedding took place on the groom’s family land in Mexico. I formalized most elements of the painting, and played up the contrast between the white gown and the dry wood of the shed. I finished…
Feminist Fairy Tale Egg Tempera Painting. A young girl contemplates an enchanted frog prince in this examination of the idea that every girl would love to kiss a toad, win a prince, and completely subsume her life in his. Her face is serious, and the toad’s jewel like eye seems to lead into a…
Three aspects of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother and Wisewoman (or Crone) read from a Book of Mysteries as they hold hands They sit in a meadow of grasses with ripened seed. For me this painting is religious art, a celebration of the stages of a woman’s life, and also a representation of life continuing through…
The Seeress in her red velvet Elizabethan court dress and ruff reposes in her mossy glade, and shows us our hearts in her crystal ball. Fantasy flowers modeled on Elizabethan embroidery add to the allegorical feel and make this a little jewel of a painting. At only 9 x 12 inches, this is a little…
Acrylic 18″ x 24″ 2016 A maiden in white floats sleeping in a twilight sky. Above her dreaming and virginal form, moons wax and wane in succession, symbolizing the cycles of her upcoming three or four decades of fertility. Beneath her mysterious objects grow from a mossy landscape. On closer inspection we see that these…
Red Riding Hood and her lifelong friend.
Acrylic 2017 16″ x 20″ Inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem of the same name. The eponymous swans are thrilling, larger than life, their feathers pure as the clouds, freedom made physical. Meanwhile, down on earth, the landscape seems prettified, pleasantly civilized into a quilt. Two swans, lower in the sky, made of quilt…
2015 Egg Tempera 18 x 30″ A nude woman of mature years and her companion, a tiger, regard the viewer fearlessly from their jungle home.
2016 Acrylic This portrait of a lovely mother and daughter was worked from a small photograph of two people I had never met. Because of the mother’s star tattoo, I decided to make stars a quiet theme in the piece. I gave the little girl a silver star ring and invented a background sky of…
2015 Egg Tempera This is a portrait of a fifteen year old girl with a theme of rebirth and renewal. The girl is in the early spring of her life, and the lenten roses in the wreath on her head symbolize life coming forth after the winter.
2015 Watercolor I did this watercolor portrait of my daughter-in-law, Kate, as a present for my son. Although I seldom paint actual fantasy creatures, I felt that the image of a woman calmly reading while cradled by the immense clawed limbs of a dragon suited the duality of Kate’s scholarly yet valiant personality.
2016 Acrylic Portrait of my husband, Chris Cart, at work at his easel, creating his magic within the magic of a fall day.
2015 Egg Tempera 24″ x 35″ A grey haired woman in a Victorian dress complete with draped bustle and walking parasol sets forth on a path into the jungle that stands as a metaphor for her interior life. A white bird of paradise flies ahead of her, and a small winged lizard watches from the…