This naked, honest wheatland inspires abstracted images images of slopes, wheat and fallow.

Lucy lived in the small house next to my grandmother in Wenatchee. After she died, the family bought the house. Besides her very few furnishings were her linens--washed, starched, pressed, carefully stacked. These prints of her own hand-made lace honor the memory of this forgotten woman.

I am an old quilter, and inspired by new ways to create images from old techniques, like these watercolor paintings inspired by exuberant improv(ized) quilts.

Take two monotype lithograph prints that have a conversation between them, weave them together, and create a completely new experience, one that references wheat land landscape, especially in winter.

About 50 years ago, farmers divided their farm slopes to conserve the soil against erosion by water. These divided slopes created fascinating patterns for artists like me! Most recently, due to the increased width of combine headers and improved no-till seeding, farmers have removed their divided slopes. These images are of an era gone by!

On the beach and by the shore where the Moclips River reaches the Pacific Ocean

The staff of life, the natural cycle of life For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning.  --Vincent Van Gogh

I get a kick out of the shapes of letters, big small, topsy turvy, upside down, inside out.

Perspective shifts from ground to. sky.

Returning from our last pre-COVID trip from France, the skies of the polar route over the Arctic were clear and stunning. I used stencils to make these monotype prints.

Wheat, a perennial theme in Walla Walla farmland, inspired these stencil-created monotype lithograph prints made at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts..