This painting is about the little things hiding in the weeds on a breezy summer’s day.Simple idea. Simple things. The whole world can blow right by us if we’re not paying attention.
Insects
Florida Tomatoes
Wild Florida tomatoes are an heirloom plant that will grow happily every month of the year. Their fruit is the size of a dime, but their flavor is as big as a house. Don’t bother staking up their...
Girls Who Like Bugs
This is the cover for a young readers’ picture book which is currently in publication. Lakeema, Lolita and Jill gain courage through a series of backyard adventures. By learning to respect creatures...
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...
Mexican Migration
Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico every winter, and on their way they pass through Florida during the season when our native sea grape bushes (Coccoloba uvifera) turn their...
Twilight Competitors
This was my very first fully-executed watercolor painting.For Christmas, 2000, my husband came home with armloads of art supplies as a gift for me. He said he was tired of hearing complain that I...
Mangrove Grip
Consider the estuary – that plot of sand between the ocean and the land that serves as the nursery for a huge variety of sea life, as well as providing environmental protection from shifting tides...
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...
Chameleon
Some paintings are just for fun, and this one certainly was fun. I love chameleons, don’t you? And I adore big funny bugs. So what could be more fun than a chameleon eating a big, funny bug?...
Pheromones
As the bee is attracted to the flower by the unseen molecules of pheromones wafting on the breeze, so are we attracted to other people. Sometimes we’re attracted to the right people, and sometimes...