Street painting at the yearly Madonnari street painting event known as Art Along the Rogue. I foraged around my neighborhood and found gorgeous colors and textures in apples, figs, wilting flowers, crinkled leaves and featured my fiddle in the center.
This mural lives in the Wildcraft Ciderworks interior music venue. I was asked to design a mural that included several of the botanicals they infuse into their ciders: rose, aronia, hops, mahonia, fireweed, yarrow, fiddleheads, fern, hawthorne and many more.
This colorful design added vibrancy to a dim grey parking garage for student housing. The bold abstract design features track runners as a nod to Eugene, Oregon’s Tracktown heritage.
Native and endangered species mural featuring chanterelles, Oregon Grape, Swallowtail Butterfly, Deer Fern, Bleeding Heart, Camas, a Mason Bee, California Poppy, Lupine, and many others!
I was honored to paint for the new Portland Living Building, a truly incredible space that is paving the way for others to learn from. After a year in the making of outdoor research, site visits and design drafts, I created each mural to represent a local ecoregion. This series brings together my rural Oregon roots & natural history, love of these wild places and bold design inspired by the fibonacci spiral.
Native and endangered species mural for Swallowtail Spirits with painting assistance from A3 high school students.
Little swarms of butterflies and birds riding on whales & bright pink are all touches that made sense to brighten days in this audiology clinic.
Eugene Ballet Mural. It was such an honor to paint these magnificent dancers from the Eugene Ballet Company on this new building with the help of Lucas Brinkerhoff. @lucas_brinkerhoff_art. We studied the muscles and bone structure of these bodies to bring them to life and incorporate them into the abstract background. Thanks to Josh Neckels and Dustrud Architecture for bringing me on to create this custom piece for the new home of so many wonderful arts and culture orgs in Eugene.
Photo Credit: Chris Becker and Lucas Brinkerhoff
Forest Bedroom Mural in blue, green and red featuring PNW forests, wildlife, maples, oaks, pines, firs and wildflowers.
Youth mural project painted by students at Chavez elementary school. Featuring the salmon life cycle and young Cesar Chavez.
In School Painting Residency in French and English with Elementary school students. Funded by ArtSpark with Lane Arts Council.
Residency with AARP and Lane Arts Council at Springfield High School, guiding 14 students and two AARP members through the mural design to completion process. Our month of collaboration led to a mural of multicultural themes, celebrating the unity and diversity present at the school and in the painted city of Springfield itself.
Commissioned for Eugene Public Library, this is a playable public art piece for musicians to enjoy downtown. The design I painted on the surface of this Spinet piano features native plants of Indian paintbrush, maidenhair fern and lupine in vibrant colors. Abstracted book pages stand behind the plants in gold and blue, while accents of the original wood are throughout the piano.
Illinois Valley Children’s Library
This reading tree sculpture collaboration between Lucas Brinkerhoff and I lives in the Illinois Valley children’s library.
These steel pieces from the reading tree were a whole new world of creating designs to then cut them out with a plasma cutter and grinder. The final step was banging away at them with hammers in a vice to bring out their curvature. I missed paintbrushes for just a minute.
Hand plasma cut and CNC plasma cut Steel and Copper
with Fir and Plywood
Chalk wall illustrations for the wonderful Coffee Plant Roaster www.coffeeplantroaster.com