The Secret

Your own personal angel bearing a floral garland to celebrate your success. All things are possible when you ask, believe and open your heart to recieve. Created using an ancient book cover, original and fabualous and hand-marbled book end pages, vintage jewelry, game pieces, dice, and porcelain angel saved from the dumpster. 15x18x2. $150. SOLD. Marilyn's Collection.

Our Lady of Ordinary Miracles
I explored the idea of woman as caretaker of people, things, and objects -- and just how much can one woman do? Created with tools of her trade -- from curlers to kitchen tools, she wears a "No Tears" badge of honor.
This piece was recently accepted into the BSU Visible M(Others): Images of Parenting in Visual Culture. The show runs March 4-April 5, 2010 at the BSU Student Union Gallery. 13 x 28 x 3 $200. SOLD. Collection of Kim Kelly.

I See By Your Outfit
Cowboys come and cowboys go, but this one will keep you company forever. A new venture for me -- I call them wall widgets and this one is created from a very old plainer, old pistol handles, vintage handmade jewelry, and other gadgets that every respectable cowboy needs to wrangle your heart.
8 x 18 x 2. $200. SOLD. Collection of Kim Kelly.

Pure Love

Far off places remembered by ancient maps & cancelled stamps, remnants of gardening tools, and a Budha or two. Created for Sue. Sold.

Our Lady of the Friendly Universe

Yes! We live in a friendly universe and this angel with handmade golf leaf wings is here to remind us every day. Vintage sheet music, hand-written school lessons, doll head, ruler, builders level and other really old cool things! 11x23. Sold (Thanks Celeste!) $200.

South of Ketchum

Painted from a drawing made on-site by Greenhorn Gulch (Golden Eagle Ranch) looking across the highway towards East Fork Road. Acrylic on wood panel. Sold. Collection of Joan & Hank Upton.

The Last Official Sighting of the Raven King

Accepted into national juried show at the Art Source Gallery, and winner of the Juror's Award. Vintage weathervane found in Bellevue, Idaho along with old game pieces, printers blocks, coins, jewelry, wonderful and very old maps, paper and sheet music. Top detail: worn pencils, harminca, printers blocks spell 'lost'. 25x22x3. $550. Sold/Jay Parks collection.

Tricks of Escape

Accepted into national juried art show at Art Source Gallery.

Take Paul’s advice…just slip out the back, make a new plan, take a train, hop on a bus… just get yourself free. Vintage doll head, old tiny cage, toys, game pieces and metal flowers. Tiny raven with gold key to right of clock watches over you. 15x21 $200. SOLD.

Ouch

It's a darn-right risky game, but if you're lucky love can be the best gamble you'll ever take. Loose your balance and watch out -- you'll end up in a bed of nails. Assemblage box with vintage paper, wooden art manequin, vintage game pieces, beads and dice. 13x25. $140. SOLD.

Fancy Dancer

Some women have all the fun. Assemblage w/ antique doll, vintage coins, beads, glass frames, typewriter keys,1940’s Italian Art-deco gold plated silver butterfly pin/Genova Province. 12x20x2. $200. SOLD.

Inspired Risk #1
10 x 18 x 2Today I delivered the finished assemblage to The Flying M. They usually have about 250 artists contribute pieces which are then displayed in the shop. For a week the public can bid on their favorites via silent auction sheets. The money raised benefits SNAP – Safety Net for Aids Program. If you live around Boise then head down and bid! SOLD.

Spring Aspens
Inspired by a little clump of Aspen trees nestled into a hillside between Ketchum and Boise. 16 x 20 x 2. Acrylic on wood panel. 250. Sorry, this one is sold!

Board Ranch

Painted from a photograph taken North of Ketchum, Idaho close to where the original homestead was located, and where I once lived. 24 x 36. Acrylic on board. $500. Sold, private collection.

Grace

Assemblage with vintage children's blocks, keys, and kitchen utensils inside antique wooden box. 10 x 16 x 2. $200. Sorry this one is sold.

All Things Will Come

I created this piece for a very special person who is studying Japanese and philosophy at USD in California.

24 x 36, acrylic on board with vintage oriental paper.

By The River

Cottonwood trees line the Big Wood River in Ketchum, Idaho. Painted on wood panel. 24 x 24 x 2. $300. Sorry this one is sold!

Fairfield

Painted from a photo taken out my car window by Fairfield, Idaho. The sky felt so big that day! Wood panel: 24 x 24 x 2.

Sorry this one is sold!

Truth & Justice

Ornate & rare carved vintage box with porcelain angel holding the word "truth" for all to see; old book & watch parts, game pieces, vintage pressed metal, jewelry & other things Canadian born Victoria loves. 9 x 14 x 2. Commissioned. $200. This one resides in Australia.

Our Lady of Safe Passage

Antique love letters, foreign stamps, exotic trinkets, vintage jewelry, antique dollhead.

13 x 20 x 2 collage box. $140.00 Sorry this one is sold.

Our Lady of Everyday Miracles

Miracles happen in the most mundane places -- say, like the kitchen where fabulous food is prepared, the laundry room where clothes emerge clean and folded. You get the idea. Antique procelain doll head, clothes pins, kitchen utensils, etc.

12 x 20 x 2, Collage box, $200. Sorry, this one is sold!

Corvus Genus

The Crow is thought to bring good luck and is pictured holding the world in his beak.

Acrylic on canvas , 16 x 20 x 2. $200. Sorry this one is sold!

Our Lady of Impossible Gardens

Vintage seed packets, combined with twigs, antique porcelain doll head, vintage jewelry and game pieces -- after all the perfect garden is a gamble!

10 x 20 x 2 Collage Box, $140.00 This one is sold...thanks Lisa!

Our Lady of Infinite Potential

Everybody has it, but sometimes you need a bit of a push! There's still time to get in the race and become the queen you know you are inside. Antique rake, porcelain dollhead, game pieces, watch faces, tucked into a vintage box papered with real estate documents.

12 x 20 x 2. Collage Box. $200.00 Sorry this one is sold!

Our Lady of Rare Beauty

A fitting tribute for the perfect wife. All the appropriate accoutrements: vintage Monopoly money, trophy, soldiers trumpeting praise and crystals galore. Collection of Kim & Daniel Dionas

11 x 20 x 2 Collage box. $140.00

The Secret

Vintage porcelain angel, book parts, jewlery, game pieces, gold rim glasses, and antique doll head tucked into a fabulous ancient box--all add up to ask, believe & recieve.

Collage Box 8 x 16 x 2. $200.00. Sorry, this one is sold!