I am a storyteller. I make paintings of powerful women, the sea, mysterious encounters, and uncommon places. These works occupy a mythic place in our consciousness, and question what we know about the world.
My paintings are saturated with rich, dense color. They describe narratives and use images that are part of our collective history, delving into our lives, dreams and memories. They examine the nature of womanhood, the psychology of transition, and the conjunction of dreaming and waking states.
I grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts near the ocean, and I chronicle all my travels in photographs. I combine those landscapes, seascapes, people, architecture, creatures, and all sorts of odd details that have never existed together in reality into my oil paintings. I love painting patterns, and skies on the cusp of change. These assemblages of remembered and imaginary places make you ask what is real - and what is not.
In my larger work, my viewpoint is often just outside the picture plane – one more step and you feel as if you can enter the narrative of the painting. Birds have long been choreographed into my work, sometimes as companions, other times as avatars of change, growth, or escape. The conjunction of women and birds placed in enigmatic landscapes evokes an especially vivid dream.
Many years ago, my husband and I purchased your exquisite pastel, "Swimmers in the River." This work of art has moved houses with us numerous times since then, always gracing our most important walls, never failing to inspire with its stunning beauty and fathomless mystery. We've felt such profound spiritual and aesthetic connection to the work, and thank you so much for the gift you've given to the lives of two admiring strangers. We are artists, my husband a classical violinist and violist, and I a poet and fiction writer, so not big earners by any means! But we had to have "Swimmers in the River," knowing that it would speak to us every day, every time we encountered its dazzling pull.
I have a poetry chapbook coming out next year. As I stopped to admire "Swimmers in the River" yesterday, I knew instantly that no art could be more perfect for my chapbook cover than something of yours. Excitedly, I set about looking through your portfolio and earmarked several works that resonated with my book "On the Lip of Night." I'm writing to ask whether you might consider allowing me to feature one of these on my book cover. My number one choice is "Earth." The contrasting colors of the earth blanket evoke the tension between light and darkness, suggesting the precipice, the very suspense contained in my title. The woman lying there feels like my narrator. We dream our way into her face, her posture, the very meaning of her being there. She is the perfect harbinger for what lies between the covers.
- Julie Fisher, Author
View the exhibit "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief" with narration by artist Linda H. Post at R. Michelson Galleries
On February 22, the Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus spacecraft successfully landed on the moon’s southern hemisphere.
On board the Odysseus is the Lunar Codex, a time capsule that contains the work of contemporary artists, writers, and musicians.
My work is among them.
Paintings range from $1,800 to $60,000
Pastels start at $450
Monotypes: 9x12 - $500, 18x24 - $1000, 24x28 - $1,350
