Past Lives Exhibition

Two of my pieces are currently on display in the Past Lives exhibition at the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Below is a collage that was done in response to a poem by Hilary DePolo. The show runs through November 5th and features artists working in a variety of mediums who used Hilary's "encounters from previous sojourns" poems as inspiration.This collage, "All I Needed," is 42 x 18" and is composed of two panels that are joined. A detail of the smaller panel was featured in a previous post, Makeshift Studio.

More Garden Colors

From the Denver Botanic Gardens -- spectacular at this time of the year. The crisp evening air seems to make all the blooms even brighter just before fall hits hard.

Botanic Color Palette

I took some beautiful photos at the Denver Botanic Gardens on Saturday. Everything was in full bloom, really colorful, and the weather was spectacular. I've been mulling over a collage series inspired by plant forms and the environment so I took a lot of reference photos. Somehow, plants just keep coming to the forefront of what I'm interested in visually playing with lately. Just the color palette of these grasses amazes and inspires me. Given the economy and its recent vagaries, perhaps I will become the stereotypical "starving artist" sooner, rather than later... Certainly, I have lots of ideas just waiting for the time to be right to develop into art studies / experiments / works!

Primeval Green

...Along the trail to Cascade Head. The photo doesn't do it justice!