These collages began as a self recycling program for my photography, I wanted to give them new life in an imaginary landscape. However when I began doing these collages I never dreamt they would go so far and people would be collecting them and that I would in fact be working towards creating a whole new world in Recycled Landscapes through my ongoing project Through the Trees. So now I shoot especially to create a color pallet for a particular piece- sometimes I just want to work with new colors I find that day, sometimes I go hunting for colors, it has in fact become a process unto itself.

I am an artist with technical leanings and I find these collages meld between semi organic and some digital in their appearance, all hand cut piece by piece, a permanent collage mandala. I intend to create landscapes to phase out on hopefully relaxing the eyes after a hard days brow furrowing. Inspired heavily by the presence of my daughter in my life and dissecting and amending visual communication to relate on a simpler plane of understanding. This work is heavily reliant on a need to have a repetitive task to meditate on cutting each piece individually, none of the pieces mean much on their own but together they make something more then what they were (taking up space on my shelf.) To create something beautiful from the left behind. Trying to create an artistic process in line with holistic earth living authenticity I am my own self supplying art maker as long as I remain also a photographer and i trust that photography flows through my life as sure as breath.

Disco Mycelium

8”x6” phtotographic collage, paint, resin on wood base, 2023

Disco Mycellium 12"x12", 2022 — Disco Mycellium , 12”x12”, 2022

While the City Sleeps

16”x24” Photographic based collage , paint, metal foils, and resin on wood created amongst the pandemic art making mania 2020.

When the Wireframe of Reality Comes Undone

A Triptych each 8”x10”

Mountainscape

An old cupboard door has become rich with texture and a collaged mountain range with many layers. 15”x3’6” 2022

Offset Pixel Discombobulation - Pixel Free Will

12”x12” 2022

Rainbow Connection

An old oak shelf from a broken China cabinet finds new life 2021

Living on the Edge of A Digital Forest

First piece 8”10” second piece 8.5”x24” collage and paint on wood with resin. 2021

Wood being digitized in an Analogue Fashion, 12”x2”x2”, 2021

Firescape 2021, 14x24”

In the midst of snowy forest 12”x24”, 2021

From Sea to Tree with Mountain in Between 2020

From Sea to tree with Mountain in Between is a group of work produced at the end of 2019 and the beginning of 2020 to be shown at the Bainbridge Performing Arts Center. A week after installation the world had been shut down for the Corona Virus and so remains my work, stored in a closed space, which I really appreciate as I need to have a studio sale to make space for this work to return, potentially unseen by the public aside from outside looking in. This is the state we are all in so one can’t be too upset or feel it’s anything to do with oneself as literally every person in the world is going through something in this regards. Here I will work to share some of the work from the show which contained 24 pieces in total. To simplify we have seascapes, mountainscapes and treescapes. Work available for sale at some point in the future….

Bodyscapes 2019

studies for breaking apart the body to edit out the naughty bits

Mountainscape 2019

Treescape on Mountinside 2019

Mountain Deep 2019

Detail Shots of Mountain Deep

The making process of Mountain Deep

Goldenscape 2019

Completed Moutainscape erupting in gold 2019. 18”x18” Detail shots below

Mini twin mountain set 2019

Mini Mountain scapes (each one 4”x4”) 2019

Golden Mountainscapes 2019

The Palouse 2019

Goldenscape 2019

Shunpike’s Golden Gala Auction 2018

This year as a former artist exhibiting in Shunpike’s Windows project I was invited to donate a piece of work for their silent auction included in their Golden Gala Auction, 2018. I had just completed this Golden Mountainscape and felt it fit the theme. Thank you Shunpike for all the art opportunities!