new work under way

I'm now working on the next piece for "Chapter Two", called "With Eager Hope" (Tree Story #108) I'll post some of my progress on my "Wanderings" blog soon.



With Eager Hope

"What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)"

Romans 8:18-25

longing for the wind's embrace (tree story #139)

Just finished a new tree story, but I'm only sharing a bit of detail; I'll release all the images concurrently with the next gallery show in March.



The finished work is a black & white photo with mixed media on a 24"x36" canvas and has been given rave reviews by those close enough to me to have seen it. ;)

This is Tree Story #139, with story by Magnus Holmgren, check it out here.

chapter two coming in 2010!

"Tree Stories: Chapter Two" will be featured in a real-world gallery in March 2010, which means that this project will once again get my focused attention. Chapter Two will include some previous stories re-worked as mixed media pieces on canvas, as well as new stories and images all in mixed media. I've just begun a new piece for Tree Story #139 so stay tuned for previews...

valley roots

A very personal tree story: My mother grew up on an almond ranch in California's Central Valley, symbolized by the pear orchard image in this piece. The small photo was taken in the family's chicken yard on the ranch. Buttons represent the long line of seamstresses that I come from (I sewed my own first complete outfit at age twelve.) And the text in the lower right hand corner is part of the story of how my great grandmother's family came out to California from Kansas.

(This piece is not for sale, but I can create similar type commissioned works for your family to cherish for many years.)

memories

A little tree story - black & white photograph in mixed media collage on 12x12" canvas.

late afternoon

This tree tells it's own stories, with text growing from the tips of it's branches... (click on it to see the detail) It's a black & white photograph collaged onto a 36x36" canvas with mixed media. Currently showing at my studio at Kennedy Gallery Art Center, 1114 20th Street in midtown Sacramento.

true love (tree story #27)

More from chapter 2: True Love is a black & white photo with mixed media on a 24x24" canvas. There are twelve palm trees, which is a symbol for Israel, also sometimes a representation of the tree of life, which gives eternal life.

Currently available, prices are temporarily lower... email me for details.

Text:

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep a score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

(1 Corinthians 13)