Watercolors
In 2020, I was chosen for a residency at Bernheim Forest and Arboretum. Due to the Covid pandemic, I did the entire project at home. The Bernheim curator decided to give me the six weeks in residency as a thank you and I was free to use the time as i wished. I decided to dedicate those weeks to learning a medium which I previously avoided, watercolor. It has taken many years for me to feel comfortable with this new body of work. I have been working plein air style and creating paintings as spontaneous reflections of nature. I found a good painting partner who I meet once a week at the Chicago Botanic gardens for a few hours of outdoor painting. This is a good contrast to my woodblock print practice which is deliberate and planned.
2023 Greenhouse
2023 Summer Apples
2023 Summer Leaves
2023 Summer Forest
2023 Summer Breeze
2023 Summer Apples
2023 Summer Apples
2023 Kentucky Trees
2023 Summer Apples
2023 Spring Birches
Many cultures have a catastrophic flood origin story. In Torah, Noah’s ark saves human and animal life, swaying for forty days and nights amidst the deluge.
God created a watery expanse above the realms and great waters below the realms. The wonder of these endless expanses of watery masses has a cosmic and immeasurable quality. Between them, God formed the space where our world exists.
The waters saved the infant Moses by concealing him in
an ark amongst the reeds. Miraculously, the baby is
found by Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in their Royal court to become a powerful sage and leader.