These paintings celebrate nature’s choreography and reflect the tumultuous times in which we live. The shapes are acrobatic, musical, chaotic. They suggest systems: tributaries, blood vessels, roots, freeway overpasses. An ode to the grace and tenacity of the natural world.
Through this series, I explore harmony and turbulence, color and pattern. I imagine systems in flux: off-ramps, realignments, danger ahead, uncharted pathways, detours. We are pushing ahead, pushing back. Some days, nature speaks for me.
Tendrils are strong. They uphold a plant’s structure, in this case, a backyard passionflower vine once laden with fruit, foliage, and branches. Maybe the Big Top is a circus tent, maybe it’s a firmament, holding our humanity.
Updraft, Tendril 376.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Roundabout, Tendril 374.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Wild Card, Tendril 375.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Galaxy, Tendril 373.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Private Collection, Oakland, CA
Trade Winds, Tendril 357.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Spring Loaded, Tendril 372.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper. 16 x 12 in. 2025
Polyphony, Tendril 271.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper, 16 x 12 in. 2025
Private Collection, Oakland, CA
Gathering Momentum, Tendril 368.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 30 x 22 in. 2025
Launchpad, Tendril 325.
Oil on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2025
One Fine Day, Tendril 344.
Oil, graphite on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2024
Odyssey, Tendril 328.
Oil on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2025
Energy Storehouse, Tendril 345.
Oil, graphite on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2024
Tempest, Tendril 367.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 30 x 22 in. 2025
Ringleader, Tendril 362.
Oil on Arches oil paper. 30 x 22 in. 2025
High Wind Advisory, Tendril 343.
Oil on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2024
Finding Our way Back Home, Tendril 360.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 30 x 22 in. 2023
Roadmap, Tendril 332.
Oil on panel. 24 x 18 in. 2024
Private Collection, Oakland, CA
Time Is Not a Place, Tendril 361.
Oil, graphite on Arches oil paper. 30 x 22 in. 2023
Starlight Express, Tendril 355.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Salad Days 2, Tendril 249.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Private Collection, Oakland, CA
Germination, Tendril 351.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Ruby Gateway, Tendril 356.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Citron Pressé, Tendril 350.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
My Pasture of Plenty, Tendril 353.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Buttercup, Tendril 354.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Midnight Blue, Tendril.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023
Sunrise Serenade, Tendril 352.
Oil, graphite on Arches paper, 16 x 12 in. 2023