Vita, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2024.

Vita is Italian for life.

Available for purchase. Please contact Portland Art Gallery for details at 207.956.7105.

Havn, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2024.

Havn means harbor in Danish.

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Matin, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2024.

Matin means morning in French.

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Mar, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2024.

Mar is Western Frisan for lake.

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Skål, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2023.

Skål is Swedish for bowl. The image of a mug without a handle that appears in my work is a response to a poem by Rumi that has particular meaning for me. Many years ago, my friend Kathy gave me a handmade mug for my birthday with a line from this poem in it. Kathy passed away nearly 30 years ago, but I still have that mug and I think about her whenever I use it.

Imagine the time the particle you are

returns where it came from.

The family darling comes home. Wine,

without being contained in cups,

is handed around.

A red glint appears in a granite outcrop,

and suddenly the whole cliff turns to ruby.

At dawn I walked along with a monk

on his way to the monastery.

We do the same work, I told him.

We suffer the same.

He gave me a bowl, and I saw.

The soul has this shape.

Shams, and actual sunlight, help me now,

being in the middle of being

partly in myself, and partly outside.

Lake of the Clouds, 24” x 24”, encaustic, graphite, and oil on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

The Lakes of the Clouds are a set of tarns (mountain lakes) located at 5,032 feet between Mount Monroe and Mount Washington in the White Mountains. These lakes form the source of the Ammonoosuc River, a tributary of the Connecticut River.

Back in the early 90s I worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club in a variety of capacities - in reservations, at the front desk of the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center, as a Guided Hikes Leader for the Education Department, at what was then the Crawford Notch Hostel and is now the Highland Visitor Center. I drove a shuttle bus to pick up hikers, filled in as a caretaker off season at Carter Notch hut, and volunteered on search and rescue missions. I also worked at Zealand Falls and Lonesome Lake huts. My sister @drvsme worked at Greenleaf and Lakes of the Clouds, which we referred to affectionately as “Lakes.”

My years at the AMC were incredibly special and gave me a deep and lasting love for hiking and for the White Mountains in particular. I remember a multi day traverse when I was 19 years old that I did on my days off to visit my sister. It was the first time I saw one of the Lakes of the Clouds and I thought it was the most beautiful thing - pristine water reflecting the wide open sky.

Seerose, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2022.

Seerose is German for water lily.

Private collection.

Printemps, 24” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2024.

Printemps is French for spring.

Private collection.

Avond II, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2023.

Avond is Dutch for evening.

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Nager, 50” x 42”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2023.

(Private collection.)

Sueño IV, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2024.

Sueño IV is Spanish for dream.

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Ananda, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2023.

Ananda is a Sanskrit word meaning bliss or extreme happiness.

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Genoa II, 12” x 12”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022

Genoa is a city in the Ligurian region of Italy where I spent time in 2022. It is an incredibly beautiful place filled with color and riddled with history. I walked through 13th century churches and developed a deeper relationship with color.

Private collection.

Lucht, 36” x 36”, encaustic and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

“Lucht” is a Dutch word meaning air, sky, atmosphere, or heaven.

Private collection.

Skål II, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2023.

Private collection.

Glissando, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2023.

Glissando literally means “to glide” in Italian. In music, a glissando is a glide from one pitch to another.

Private collection.

Nacht, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2023.

Private collection.

Lago, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2023.

Private collection.

Cumulonimbus, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2023.

Private collection.

Själ, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2023.

Själ is Swedish for soul, mind, or spirit. This painting draws inspiration from a poem by Rumi that contains the line: “He gave me a bowl/ and I saw, the soul has this shape.”

The carved imagery in this piece takes on many metaphorical meanings for me - in some paintings it represents a tulip (nod to my Dutch ancestory) and in others it is a mug without handles (I’m a big fan of drinking tea and warming my hands at the same time). In others, it serves as a kind of bowl so that it’s repeated pattern of appearance suggests many souls coming together.

Sankalpa, 12” x 12”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2023.

Sankalpa is the Sanskrit word for intention. Sans means "to become one with" and kalpa means "time" and "subconscious mind." I have long had an interest in yoga and meditation. For me, artmaking offers an extension of those contemplative practices.

Available for purchase. Please contact Portland Art Gallery for details at 207.956.7105.

Sueño III, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Sueño is a Spanish word meaning both dream and sleep.

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The Summoning World, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2022.

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Pond, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

When I was a young girl, my favorite artist (and really one of the only artists I knew of) was Monet. My mother took me to see a Monet exhibition at the Boston Museum of Art and it was the first time I remember going to a large museum. I bought a poster and kept it on the wall of my bedroom through high school. I found his paintings infinitely comforting and sublimely beautiful, appreciating the way he could, for example, direct the viewer's attention to something as simple as a haystack awash in light and make it feel as if you were seeing this object for the first time and it was lovely and mysterious.

Private collection.

Abend, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Abend is German for evening.

Private collection.

Drift, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2022.

Drift was inspired by time on Sabbathday Lake this summer. My partner and I spent several afternoons slowly paddling through lily pads and grasses on the lake. I became enthralled with the water lilies along the shore - the lines they made, their delicate shape, and the way they gathered in clusters knocking this way and that when the water was disturbed.

I was trying to capture the quality of the light and reflected color on the water, a breeze ruffling its surface, and a sense of looking down through the water to the life below.

Private collection.

Sueño, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Sueño is a Spanish word meaning both dream and sleep.

Private collection.

Harbor, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Available for purchase. Please contact Portland Art Gallery for details at 207.956.7105.

Riposo, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on on panel, 2022.

Riposo is Italian for rest.

Private collection.

Beso, 36” x 36”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2020.

Beso is Spanish for kiss.

Available. Contact me directly for inquiries.

Ström, 24” x 42”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel.

Ström is Scandinavian for river.

Private collection.

Nadar, 36” x 36”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2021.

Nadar is a Spanish word meaning to swim.

Private collection.

Canto II, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, ink, and graphite on panel, 2021.

A canto is one of the sections into which certain long poems are divided.

Private collection.

Tazza, 24” x 42”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Pond II, 36" x 36", encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

In Maine, summer is fleeting and there is this desire to hang onto the warmth and quick flare of growth. For me, the Pond series is a meditation on transient beauty and the passage of time. It is a reminder to slow down.

Private collection.

Marcher, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Marcher is French for walk.

Private collection.

Sueño II, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Sueño is a Spanish word meaning both dream and sleep.

Private collection.

Avond III, 24” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Avond is Dutch for evening.

Private collection.

The Summoning World, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

Vatn IX, 24” x 42”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2021.

Vatn is the Icelandic word for water.

Private collection.

Nadar III, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and silver leaf on panel, 2021.

“Nadar” means to swim in Spanish.

Private collection.

El Mar, 12” x 12”, encaustic, oil, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

El Mar is Spanish for the sea.

Private collection.

Avond 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Avond is Dutch for evening.

Private collection.

Instantané, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Instantané is a French word meaning instantaneous.

Available for purchase. Please contact Portland Art Gallery for details at 207.956.7105.

Storm, 12”x 12”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Fleur V, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Fleur is French for flower.

Private collection.

Scatter, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Cloudscape, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel.

Private collection.

Jardin III, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Lac, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Lac is French for lake.

Private collection.

Dusk, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Petaluma, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

Cloudscape II, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Draumar III, 24” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2022.

Draumar means “dream” in Icelandic.

Private collection.

Homeland, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Draumar II, 30” x 30” encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Draumar means dream in Icelandic.

Private collection.

Homeland II, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Storm II, 12” x 12”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Private collection.

Draumar, 36” x 36” encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Draumar means dream in Icelandic.

Private collection.

El Campo, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

Ai, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Ai is Japanese for love.

Private collection.

Arrêtez, 36” x 36”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2020.

Arrêtez means stop in French.

Private collection.

Keukenhof, 36” x 48”, encaustic, oil, ink, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.” - Emily Dickinson

This painting was inspired by my visit to one of the world’s largest flower gardens in 2019. My mom and I made our way there after arriving at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam following an all night flight. A light sleeper at best, I can’t sleep on airplanes, so I stayed up and watched movies and was pretty wired by the time we were hunting for our rental car the following morning.

We arrived at Keukenhof in the town of Lisse just as it was opening for the day, which meant that we were free to stroll around without the intense pressure of the crowds that would pack the garden just a couple hours later.

Sipping coffee in my sleep-deprived state, I found the gardens to be a near hallucinatory explosion of color. It was an experience akin to being at a powerfully loud concert, all my senses stimulated and heightened. That is what I tried to capture with this piece.

Fairfax, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

Wolke, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Wolke is German for cloud.

Private collection.

Dusk III, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Available for purchase.

Pyramid, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Pyramid is in honor of Cañada de la Virgen, an Otomi archaeological site that was recently excavated in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Private collection.

Munay, 24” x 42”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Munay is a Peruvian word for love.

Private collection.

Padre, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Padre is Spanish for mother.

Available. Contact Portland Art Gallery for inquiries at 207.956.7105.

Canto, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and graphite on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

Field, 40” x 40”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2019.

The title for Field comes from a poem by the Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi (1207-1273).

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.”

Private collection.

Un Après-midi, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Un Après-midi is French for one afternoon.

Private collection.

Vatn VII, 30” x 40”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2020.

Vatn is the Icelandic word for water.

Private collection.

Hive, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

Madre, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Madre is Spanish for mother.

Private collection.

Regn, 24” x 32”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Regn is Norwegian for rain.

Private collection.

Regn IV, 24” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2021.

Regn is Norwegian for rain.

Available. Contact Portland Art Gallery for inquiries at 207.956.71.05.

Regresar, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Regresar means to return in Spanish.

Private collection.

Amarillo, 24” x 24”, encaustic, oil, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Amarillo is Spanish for yellow.

Available. Contact Portland Art Gallery for inquiries at 207.956.7105.

Schnee, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and graphite on panel, 2019.

Schnee is German for snow.

Private collection.

Respirar, 30” x 40” encaustic, oil, metallic foil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Respirar means to breathe in Spanish.

Private collection.

Hlátur, 40” x 40”, encaustic, oil, graphite, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Hlátur is Icelandic for laughter.

Private collection.

Bodø, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2020.

Private collection.

Vatn V, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

All The Clouds In The Sky, 24” x 42”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

River, 10” x 10”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

Offre, 24” x 42”, encaustic, oil, silver leaf, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Offre is French for offering.

Private collection

A Story, 30” x 40”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

La Ciudad, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2019.

Private collection.

Afstand, 24” x 24”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2018.

Afstand is Dutch for distance.

Private collection.

Beyond, 30” x 40”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2018.

The title for this piece comes from the Ashtavakra Gita on the nature of self-realization: “I am the boundless ocean. This way and that, the wind, blowing where it will, drives the ship of the world. But I am not shaken. I am the unbounded deep, in whom the waves of all the worlds naturally rise and fall. But I do not rise or fall. I am the infinite deep, in whom all the worlds appear to rise. Beyond all form, forever still. Even so am I.”

Private collection.

Hiver, 36” x 36”, encaustic, oil, and graphite on panel, 2017.

Hiver is French for winter.

Private collection.

Shizuka, 14” x 11”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2018

Shizuka is Japanese for silent, quiet, or gentle.

Private collection.

Shraddha, 14” x 14”, enaustic and oil on panel, 2018

Shraddha is a Sanskrit word for faith; it describes a positive type of energy that comes from deep within each person and shapes that person’s world and life.

Private collection.

Vatn, 16” x 20”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2017.

Vatn is Icelandic for water.

Permanent collection of the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

Kyrro, 30” x 30” encaustic, oil, and silver leaf on panel, 2017.

Kyrro is Icelandic for stillness.

Private collection.

Takk, 24 x 24”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2018.

Takk is Icelandic for thanks.

Private collection.

Vidya, 30” x 30”, encaustic and oil on panel, 2017.

Vidya is Hindu for knowledge.

Private collection.

Yutori, 24” x 32”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2017.

Yutori is Japanese for spaciousness.

Private collection.

Worlds Within, 30” x 30”, encaustic, oil, and 23 karat gold leaf on panel, 2017.

Private collection.