Original Watercolor, 2018 For many shamans (yakchaks), the ceibo tree symbolizes the “axis mundi” – the center sacred connection between heaven and the underworld. Known as “the world tree,” the...
Dreams
Dreams of Flight
In my favorite dreams, I’m always flying. Light as a bubble, gentle as a bird, soft as a butterfly – I’m rising up on thermals of inspiration. This is one of my “Consciousness Portraits.” Instead of...
Sunset Dock Reflections
…And when he was up, he was up,And when he was down, he was down,And when he was only half way up he was neither up nor down.“The Grand Old Duke of York,” Children’s Nursery Rhyme One evening,...
Eclipse
This is a “Consciousness Portrait” of my father. My father was born on an eclipse and died 79 years later on an eclipse. All his life, he struggled with dualities. He was the youngest of eleven...
Swimming With Whales
Have you ever felt like you jumped into the deep end of a project and you were in over your head? I have an annoying habit of volunteering for things beyond my current skill level and then...
The Gift
I originally designed this as a Florida holiday card. Little did I know how much young people would read into it. One young man told me this was the “marine nativity.” As he saw it, the animals...
Ballerina
When I was a little girl, I dreamed of being a ballerina. But my mother told me my Teutonic genes made that impossible…and maybe she was right…but I wish I’d had the change to try, anyway. What...
Mermaid Tales
Remember your school definitions? A mammal is a warm-blooded higher vertebrate that nourishes its young with milk secreted by mammary glands and has skin usually covered with hair. Well-known marine...
Friends Watching Fish
Don’t part with your illusions.When they are gone, you may still exist,but you will have ceased to live. Mark Twain I like illusions. There’s an illusion in this painting. Something not immediately...
Swimming With Seals
Galapagos seals are fin-footed mammals with amazing abilities in water. Their speed and agility in water contrasts to their clumsy waddling on land. Their agility in the water makes it possible for...