shells and mushroom (2016) – 9 x 10 5/8″
wine and cribbage (2018) – 12 3/4 x 19 1/2″
Chinese checkers (2017) – 8 x 16 3/8″
My Nan’s marble tin always held a few interesting extras.
glass candies (2018) – 19 1/2 x 12 3/4″
rose and rosebud (2018) – 10 3/4 x 8″
tulip buds (2017) – 10 3/4 x 8″
apples (2017) – 6 x 6″
watercolour on wood panel
Teacups
friends for tea (2008) – 18 x 13 5/8″
Five friends, five teas . . . alike but different
great great grannie
Eliza’s teacup (2010)
10 1/2 x 12 1/2″
my teacup (2011)
10 1/2 x 12 1/2″
my daughter’s teacup (2012)
10 1/2 x 12 1/2″
The three above are family cups and change from one generation to the next. The older one is delicate and fancy. Several generations later the pattern on my teacup is more minimal. Finally the third cup is back to decoration, but in a different style and my daughter often doesn’t use a saucer, something that great, great grannie would probably never have thought of doing. All different, and yet, all connected.
teacup and vase (2009)
Commission
Includes the couple’s china teacup filled with his favorite tea, as well as two lady bugs and a dragonfly among the flowers to go with the bug theme they have in the kitchen.
Some of the sets being assembled
for the Prairie Ripples Art Tour.
Traditions Quilt series
Twelve sets of paintings, that form a full size “quilt” when viewed together. The top stitching found on quilts is incorporated into the design and takes the form of ivy leaves and burbly water. It extends onto the mat. Each image spans four squares that are framed as separate paintings.
Traditions quilt: lemon loaf (2013)
individual squares 7 x 7″
About the love of baking and the recipes we
hand down from one generation to the next.
The glass juicer is also inherited.
Lend a Hand series
For this series I asked volunteers to “lend a hand” by posing their hands in an activity they enjoy or are often found doing.
hands, cards (2013) – 10 1/2 x 7″
pencil crayon and watercolour
hammer hands (2018) – 10 1/2 x 7″
pencil crayon and watercolour
hands, sewing (2014) – 10 1/2 x 7″
pencil crayon and watercolour
duck on a log (2010) – 17 3/8 x 15 1/2″