In the Garden

I love to spend time in my garden and always find inspiration there. I have coffee every morning in the back yard and my two cats watch while I water the flower pots and read or paint in my sketchbook. We grow mostly flowers but also have a small herb garden and a couple of tomato plants. We don't have space to grow our own vegetables but we do enjoy the abundance of fresh vegetables and fruits at our local farmers market.

Jazz Festival

I love jazz music and especially hearing good performers live outdoors at a summer concert. I have had the pleasure of creating the art for the Salt Lake City International Jazz Festival since 2003. It's been a rewarding challenge to come up with a new image to represent the festival each year. Here is this year's poster and a couple of the t-shirts.

New Textural Digital Images

I usually create images digitally with solid color, but recently have been adding texture and a painterly quality to my digital illustration. I love how it looks. These are "Summer" and "Winter" of four seasonal book illustrations I have done (you can see the other two seasons on my website). This series is my newest using this technique.

Allegory

I am intrigued by the idea of representing nature as human in spirit and my recent personal paintings are inspired by allegory and myth.