Turmeric Presents a Seat, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Take a Seat, 6.3" Round, Watercolor, Private Collection
Tenuous Seat over Strouds Creek Farm, Oil on Panel, 11" x 14", Private Collection
Dropping into Horton Grove, Oil on Linen, 24" x 24"
Ginger Let it Go, Mixed Media, 5" x 7"
Luigi's Seat, 6" x 6", OIi on Panel
Womb Chair Over Horton Grove, Oil on Panel, 11" x 14"
Dandelion Detox Seat, Mixed Media, 8" x 10"
Upside Down Rightside Up, Mixed Media, 12.25" x 12.25"
Hay Fever Seat, Oil and Tea Package Transfer, 20" x 20"
Orange Chair in the Midst of Loss, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Camellia Seat of Intimacy, Mixed Media, 5" x 7"
Discontented Chair, OIl on Panel, 5" x 7"
“Take a Seat” works below, created in New Jersey.
Take the Ginger Seat, Mixed Media, 16" x 12", Private Collection
A Seat on the Middle Path, Watercolor, 5" x 11.5"
Positive Seat at the Crossroads, Mixed Media, 14.25" x 16.5"
Wing Chair of Equanimity, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Womb Chair in the Snow, Mixed Media, 5" x 7"
Mint Seat of the Strawberry Fields, Mixed Media, 7" x 5"
Wing Chair of the Reservoir, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Wild Sweet Orange Seat, Mixed Media, 5" x 7"
Ginger Turmeric Retreat Seat, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Elissa’s Energizing Striped Seat, Mixed Media, 5" x 7", Private Collection
Sit in the Garden, Watercolor, 5" x 10" ©2020, Private Collection
Raspberry Leaf Seat, Mixed Media, 5" x 7"
Reservoir Ginger Seat, Mixed Media, 7" x 5"
A Seat in the Snow, Mixed Media, 12.5" x 14"
Nighty Night, Mixed Media on Panel, 8" x8"
Warming the Heart, Mixed Media, 8" x 8"
Refuge from Stress, Mixed Media, 10" x 8"
A Seat by the Firehole, Mixed Media, 9.75" x 14"
Yellow Chair of the Snow Banks, Acrylic and Image Transfer, 16 1/8" x 18"
Chair of the Red Rocks, Mixed Media, 9.25" x 11.125", Private Collection
TAKE A SEAT:
These works have been evolving exploring various paint media including watercolor, acrylic, and oils. Many of them are mixed media made with image transfers of tea packages and chairs, tea, coffee, gouache,and watersoluble crayons. Surfaces are also varied between watercolor papers, aquabords, stretched linen and wood panels.
Starting an image featuring a chair, came out of TeaScapes, which began as watercolor paintings focused on honoring places where I found presence through a landscape, combined with healing tea. The first Take a Seat painting was created in the style of a landscape with the inclusion of a womb-styled chair. As time went by, I’ve focused on two different avenues: one of smaller isolated seats that conveyed comfort and the other considering chairs in a landscape that explore stability in instability, and eventually adding tethers and birds. Take a Seat comes directly from meditation practice, where teachers invite practitioners using that term.