Sentient Sage 24" x 20"
Ram 36" x 48"
Joy and Rosebud 48” x 60” View in Home Setting
Joy and her look-a-like daughter, Rosebud, were my pet black angus cows on my grandmother’s farm in
Florida. Joy became the brood mare of the herd. She was incredibly intelligent. We would hand feed them melon, mango, banana peels, bread and feed cubes. My grandmother had the tips of Joy’s horns cut off because she would toss her head at the feed trough to keep other cows from crowding in but potentially injuring them. In the source photo that I took, the tips of her horns are missing. I painted her
horns intact. She deserved it.
Circus Lion circa 1947 36” x 48” View in Home Setting
A favorite photo of mine is a 9” X 12” black and white photo that my grandmother’s second husband, a photographer, took inside the lion’s cage of the Ringling Circus in 1947. I wanted to capture its magnificence as the ‘king of beasts’. I also wanted to honor the magical Ringling Circus that wintered in Sarasota, Florida where my family is from.
Let's Play 24" x 36"
Bison 48" x 60"
Sherbert Flamingos 36" x 36"
Bronx Zoo Lions 48” x 60” View in Home Setting
My inspiration for ‘Bronx Zoo Lions’ came from visiting the Eugene Delacroix retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018. The scale and beauty of Delacroix’s ‘Tiger Cub Playing with Its
Mother’ and ‘Lion Hunt’ instilled in me the desire to create my own work of big cats. ‘Bronx Zoo Lions’ is a tribute to the ‘king of beasts’ and a nod to Romanticism in painting. The source material is an 11 x 17 inches photograph I took at the Bronx Zoo in the Spring of 2019.
Rabbits 30" x 40"
Wool Over Their Eyes 30" x 40"
Escape Artist 24" x 36"
Turkeys 24" x 18"
Slippery Slope 24" x 30"
Mandrills 46" x 60"
Everglades 48" x 60"
Grandma’s Herd 24” x 30” View in Home Setting
Our favorite cows from the 1970’s to 2017 are represented in this painting. The live oak tree is the star
of the painting, however. It was felled by the 1921 hurricane in Sarasota but lived on growing sideways. The cows enjoyed the cool shade it provided. My sister and I enjoyed climbing it.
Koala Bear 36” x 36” View in Home Setting
Philanthropic friends of mine support koala bear conservation at the Miami Zoo. They shared with me photos of a koala named after the patron. One image stood out which I thought would be resplendent depicted on a large canvas nestled in stylized Eucalyptus leaves.