Flights of Fancy

An earthy angel with colorful wings gazes across the sea. In a parlor filled with globes and paintings, easels, and inventions, a hand is sketching out new ideas with a quill pen. A flying machine floats in a brilliant light bulb. Soon the two - artist and angel - will meet in a flight of imagination.

“There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing” - Kahlil Gibran

Acrylic on paper, silk and polyurethane, butterfly and moth wings, and macaw feathers. Approximately 32 x 60 cm.

The Shaman

"They wished to flower, and flowering is being beautiful: but we wish to ripen, and that means being dark and taking pains." - Rainer Maria Rilke

Acrylic paint on paper, cotton and silk, with glass, green jasper, paua shell and macaw feathers. About 35 x 35 cm. Private collection.

Terra Incognita

Acrylic on paper. 55 x 38 cm. Private collection

In vino veritas

"I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food." --- W. C. Fields

(painted wine corks with coffee beans and one bone bead for "other features")

Feather Touch

My cousin gave me this huge bunch of stunning, multi-colored macaw feathers after he saw my strange collages which use every conceivable thing one can glue to paper.

I am accepting gifts of like nature, especially butterfly wings, which are hard to find. Don't destroy any living thing, but if you find them, I'll be interested! (One friend donated a big bag of wine corks, which she claims was hard work. I told her next time she should call for back-up.)