Finding My Center (32.5" x 20.5"). During a year-long online class with Sheila Frampton Cooper, this angular piece emerged with an off-center totem. This totem represents my search for peace and contentment while being too isolated, during the chaos and fear of the pandemic. $800

Flying Geese (57" x 54"). Flying geese emerge from a wintry sky. $1500

Pieces of Twilight (30”x30”). I see beauty in imperfections in my environment that are wrought by time, natural elements, and human use. Likewise, I cherish the imperfections in my work that emerge through accident, intuition, and improvisation. $1300

Sunday Morning Masked (35.5” x 35.5”). When my senior living residence was locked down due to Covid, the sewers worked to make masks for residents and staff. Since my church had switched to online services, I had a chance to watch Sunday Morning. I loved all the suns they used on the program and decided to make one, using the scraps from the mask making. The background is dark, reflecting the mood at the time when we were thinking we might never emerge from the pandemic. As you can see, the sun itself is masked.

Break Out (42" x 34") Time is not a line but a series of life events that you experience. Break Out of your normal patterns....Keep moving, follow your bliss, and the past will find its proper place. $850

Thunder Hole (33" x 23.5") Thunder Hole is a strong voice on the Maine Coast, created by the unending tides crashing against the land. The dramatic sound and sight remind us that Mother Earth is a vibrant, living, changing home for all who live here. $700

Miriam and the Women Took Up their Timbrels and Danced (13.5" x 11.5") I made this linocut after I graduated from Salem College in 2005. These Old Testament women celebrated after they emerged on the other side of the Red Sea.

We were all hit hard by Covid. During the past 2 years, I learned to become healthier and to take better care of myself and my family. I feel ready to emerge from this time of self-growth a stronger person. I have been wanting to incorporate my linocuts into my art quilts and this seemed the perfect place to start. $300

Cicada (17" x 24"). As we worked to put our lives back together from Covid-19, another species was emerging in its once-every-seventeen-year cycle. North Carolina was spared the worst of the eruption, but north of us there was six weeks of cicadas, cicadas, cicadas..... $350

Empty Nest (24" x 36"). Leaving the nest provides new opportunities -- for those emerging from its safety, and for those left behind. $600

Piece (Peace) Work (30" x 24"). Over time, a relationship can bog down in the weeds. It takes a lot of piece work to get back to a peaceful place. $450

My Neighborhood (4.25" x 39") This is the first art piece I finished after I emerged from depression. Once it was complete, I felt creative again. "My Neighborhood" was made for a reader's challenge in Quilting Arts Magazine. The restrictions of height and width make creating a small piece enjoyable and it was very exciting to have it published in the December 2021 issue. Scraps, beads, buttons, a charm, and flowers helped define the buildings.

Seeking Optimism (47" x 47"). Against the black and white world of today’s pandemic and political landscape, I find myself seeking the dancing figure of optimism. As I am wedged between mounting tensions and angular “threads” of news, politics, and COVID, I peek out from isolation, eager to escape and join that joyful figure in a happier dance. $2,000

Blue Red And White Post New Orleans (43" x 47.75") I will never have time like that again. The pandemic reminded me of being snowed in. I did not feel isolated, but felt it was an opportunity to get on with my work. $1.000

Enchanted Mesa (32" x 26") Age and health compel me to recognize that I most likely will not “emerge” from the recent years of fear and isolation with much energy or enthusiasm for the outside world. I believe I can only emerge through my art and reflections on memories of better times. The mesa behind our Boulder home was called “Enchanted Mesa” and it was home to rocks, cactus, deer, magpies, mountain lions, a windblown tree and a fragile/rugged ethereal beauty. Reflecting on that time and place gives me hope that it is possible to find peace within ourselves and, perhaps, between each other. $850

Antennas (32.5 x 23") The motif in this quilt developed as the solution to pieced half circles that would not lie flat. The tapered strips emerging from the center look like antennas, particularly after I added the circles. $500

It Finally Dawned on Us (35" x 41") This work is from my series based on Georgia’s Providence Canyon (formed in part by farm-runoff erosion) and the abandoned automobiles studding its hiking trails. This work is an ecological and philosophical commentary on human nature, culture, and the physical world. It is a celebration of human creativity, imagination, and ability to fashion tools from the earth. It is also a reflection on the impact of our species on the changing face of the world and an appeal for circumspection as we emerge from the pandemic with a greater awareness of the other and future generations. $2,875

The Light of Knowledge (27.75" X 28") The light of knowledge has to keep pushing, needs to keep penetrating the darkness of the unknown. I hope that someday trust and knowledge will emerge victorious. $75