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Sweetgrass coil basket attached to black jar lid using sinew. 

Sweetgrass Coil Basket Sewn to Recycled Jar Lid

A native design, gray and white fleece teddy bear created from Grandma Kay's jacket for her grandson when she died, sitting on the artist's table.

Grandma Kay's Jacket

An off-white vessel made of waxed linen woven around stones.

   Twisted

A cross-stitch embroidery price of a gray, vintage arcade cabinet. A technicolor sign at the top reads "GAMEMAN". On the screen is a distressed figure, seemingly pounding on the glass from the inside. A mysterious liquid drips from the bottom of the cabinet

GAMEMAN

a basket made with warm colors and geometric design

Hampar's basket

A woman with three eyes looks at the viewer. Her hair is made of fabric scraps and embroidered bones. 

Set the World on Fire

A 3-dimensional wet-felted fish treated with many layers of Norwegian wool roving. A plastic resist was placed in the center of the shape about halfway through the felting process so that it could be cut to reveals the "insides" of the fish.

Felted Fantasy Fish

A pine tree on a field of green with a blue sky inside of a yellow sun with a background of blue.

Tree of Life

The design for this bag was inspired by the subway system in Stockholm, Sweden and pulls the color palette of pastel salmon, lavender, mint and white found in the Morby Centrum underground station. This piece is a handcrafted reversible leather backpack, with diagonal pastel stripes on one side, connecting to the opposite side where the stripes are horizontal. Above the horizontal stripes showcases the architectural insignia logo for the Minneapolis based minimal leather goods brand, Montgomery Collection. This drawstring backpack cinches at the top and includes details of the stripes on one side of the pull strings. The interior is lined in grey suede, soft to the touch and will protect all of your belongings held inside. Worn on either the diagonal or horizontal side, this backpack is a functional piece of art.

Montgomery Collection No.070.3 Backpack

This piece was created by fulling teal blue wool by agitating it in hot water, then over dyeing it by first tightly wrapping a covering over it that allowed the original color to remain while the exposed sections had color removed, then dyeing in the rust color that forms the grid patterning.  The wood frame was painted copper with a border made of three strands of yarn, some with metallic and sequin highlights.

Tiles

A felt artwork with bright fluorescent hand cut abstract shapes in the center, surrounded by swirling needle felted shapes and background using muted colors and a softer focus.

Cosmic Pond

A macro view of a yellow iris against a complementary purple background painted in a watercolor Batik style on rice paper.

Memories of Summer

A patchwork of diamond forms made by layers of encaustic and paper on handmade adobe tile.

rhombus

Passion Flower

A wool tapestry of a little bird in various colors of blue, standing at the edge of the seashore.  Special tapestry technique includes color gradations created by splitting the 4-ply wool strands and re-twisting them into new color combinations to then be woven into the tapestry. 

Chirpy Little Chap

Doubleweave line design with cotton yarn. Lines are in black with a multiple color background.  Dark, but also bright.

Look on the Bright Side

A sculpted bust of a veiled woman made from wool that looks like marble. The wind appears to be blowing the fabric against her face and the rest is billowing away from her. The veil reveals beneath the illusion of translucent folds half of her face is classicly beautiful and the other half is her skull. 

When The Veil Is Torn Away

A red twined weaving reflective of a dancer. Made with cotton.

Dancer

Portrait in profile of woman dressed in black.  Significant contrast between dark dress/background with light colored skin. 

Madame X

Hand sewn knotted snake made out of iridescent turquoise and pink material. I added heart shaped pink eyes.

Snake

Three balls made of wool yarn that has floral patterns and bees.

Singlade Bollar Floral Bees

backdrop of a white canvas 2 objects made of cotton cording covered with recycled denim are placed equidistant. Left object is black denim covered cording in an imperfect straight line , the cotton cording is peaking Out of the bottom. Right object is a range of blues and black cording jumbled in a series of knots and tangles with both end exposing the cotton cording.

2 Paths to Growth Vol 2

Cross stitch design, Black Lives Matter. A piece made to promote awareness and solidarity. 


Minneapolis 20/20

A peaceful lake view in autumn, created in fibers and fabric.

Fall Reflections

Silk organza in a multitude of patterns and colours (greens, oranges, brown, gold, violet, and blue), cut in small rectangles stitched together with layered pieces one atop the other.

Mikan in the Mountains in Autumn

An embroidered picture of a mountain with brown thread on ivory background, using different stitch patterns to show different shading.

Landscape After Castle

Peaceful memories of beautiful sunset filling the Western sky

Remembrance

A small, three dimensional wall sculpture.  Digital embroidery in peach and light blue threads with 3 beads.  It appears to float off the wall.

Parallelogram

A hand embroidered tree trunk in shades of brown with light blue lichen on the trunk.

Tree Trunk with Lichen

Capricorn Goat hand tooled and textured in leather with constellation in a blue black sky.

After, 2019

Holly Day