Imagine if someone could paint with hand cut glass.  This is a stained glass mosaic of a handful of bright red peonies, reaching upwards towards sunlight, underneath a stormy iridescent gray sky.  The stems of the flowers are long, flat pieces of glass, as well as some pieces of glass turned on their sides that catch the light just so. 

Peonies After the Storm

A collage housed in a discarded black clock face. Collage depicts facial close up of Rembrandt’s “Portrait of a Woman” superimposed with the quote “I am someone’s daughter too.”

I am Someone’s Daughter too

A vibrant mixed media painting of bright red, black, and cream that includes abstract shapes and a piano keyboard.

Can't Stop Playing That Jazzy Music

An imagined mountain valley at night with a winding river lit by the glowing full moon above, wisps of clouds among the distant peaks, framed by a steep cliff nearby.

A Midnight Moon

It Takes Tou-Can

A black and white photograph of Medusa and her statues inside her castle. Gold and silver foil accents. 

Medusa

The image is based on a photograph of my elderly mother.  I've added a textural background with collaged paper and floral fabric elements to the square artwork.  

Mumsy

Glass mosaic of a raven with a shiny bauble in its beak. This piece is created with many tiny glass pieces of iridescent colors including purples, greens, blues and black.

Shiny

A talisman of protection, created from found rust, vintage silver medals, brown leather scapular, with hanging African gray metal curved hook artifact, metal turtle, carved cream natural stones.

Reliquary of Protection

Woman’s image under convex glass dreaming her universe into being. Comet set with moonstone and other celestial objects made from found objects fill night sky made of black and gold porcelain tea cup and saucer. 

Dreamer

In the center of the canvas board text is written "I Love U My Lil Lady Grams Nay Miss's U... I Do..." The O in Love is shaped like a heart. The background is lightly shaded pink with bubble hearts floating. The text is bordered with flowers on a vine. The canvas board is bordered along the top and bottom with rhinestone ribbon.

I Love U My Lil Lady

A collage with two birds from a 1960s bird atlas sitting on opposite sides of the frame, one above text from a vintage algebra schoolbook reading, “Distance between two points” 

The Distance Between Two Points

A layered print showing a community of navy and yellow round and angled shapes patterned to give the illusion of movement.

Another Day on the Info Transit

A black and white photo transfer of my late son with rivers of blue and teal waxes melting into a green field at the bottom, anchored by a metal dragonfly.

Andrew:  River of Tears

Early spring inspired weaving. Neutral tones with a few highlights of yellow and red representing blooming trees. Some leaves and tree branches woven into the piece.

Homeschool 1

Honeycomb

A drawing of two multi-colored mandalas that converge in the middle, where the letters E V O L V E embellish their meeting place.

Love, in other words

A painting of a whale silhouette with a vibrant landscape of orange and blue fish among a lush bed of autumn colored coral. 

Underwater Ecosystem

Orange, yellow and red stained and layered glass form the background and represent dangers of climate change (earth on fire/flooding due to polar melting). Paper mache' figures of Peruvian masked dancers with instruments (drum and accordion) sing the warning cry.  A blue and red fused glass disc represents earth flooded while the "sky" is the color most recently viewed during the West Coast wild fires.

Climate's Clarion Call

A female juggling hearts and balls, the face a mirror, multi-colored, and all made with chocolate wrappers.  Quotes: “feel free to be yourself;” “live your dreams.”

Chocolate-lover's Self Portrait

Star art created with three heartwarmingly themed holly & berry designed materials.

Valstar

A collage portrait of a person with green hair and comically large facial features; blue eyes extending larger than the hair and head, and a mouth wearing red lipstick taking up roughly half of the face. The portrait is surrounded by a wreath of arms sprouting in all directions and the background is a multitude of bright and busy colors and patterns including stripes, stars, clouds, polka dots, flowers, and random shapes.

abstract landscape collage using relief ink and acrylic dry brush on paper, mounted on board.

untitled

A small rectangular abstract painting with a dark grey and white speckled rubber surface. There's a piece of canvas painted yellow and black with a scratched-in grid pattern attached at top half of the painting. At the top of the piece of canvas are three lumps of light grey plaster. A small fragment of light grey flooring from the artist's studio is attached to the bottom left corner of the painting. The perimeter of the painting is marked with silver and black paint. There are several thin, short plastic hairs jutting out from the top, left, and bottom sides of the painting.

Play Surface

Encaustic painting on wood panel. Layers of translucent encaustic wax infused with oil and powdered pigments with embedded Washi papers and 23.5K gold powder. Black profile edge.

MAGIC

A mixed media painting on a 3D aluminum surface. The edges are dented. The left side of this image depicts a shark trying to bite a mountain climber with a mysterious orange, red, and yellow geometric abstraction layered between the two subjects. The right side of the image is multicolored text on a white background that reads "3. Letting things get in the way." 

Flaws

An abstract jagged diamond shape made from 1 photographs taken at the Mega Mall 3 level escalators  . Color black with gold highlights.

Mega Mall Visions V

Mosaic of a Yellow Finch sitting on top of pink flowers. Made with stained glass and sitting in a wooden frame made from barn wood. 

Spring Returns

A colorful and whimsical multi media collage incorporating textures, natural materials such as driftwood and dried floral, fabric, wallpaper, vintage cards, and dimension, inspired by my lovely great aunt Thea.

Thea

A cerulean blue collage with celestial images, swirling gold glitter, cut-outs of Egyptian papyrus art, and a peacock feather. 

Peonies After the Storm, 2019

Kristin Dieng