Watercolor & Gouache
For several years I’ve been using sustainable art materials to create my pieces. These include vegan and non-toxic watercolor paint, sustainably harvested natural pigments to create my handmade acrylic paint, upcycled materials, secondhand frames and brushes and more.
Animals and plants are my favorite topics to portray in my art. There's nothing like a striking character in a bright and colorful setting!
Have you seen my Minimalist paintings yet? I make these by splashing some paint on the paper and then finding out which animal could emerge from those abstract shapes. They are elegant and yet very cheerful and sweet.
If you’re interested in a commissioned piece contact me here. Only USA shipping.
~ Album Covers ~
“With love and gratitude, this song is offered as a gift to our global ceremonial eagle-condor family.
Sing it. Share it. Carry it.
Thank you to the medicines, the spirits, the elders, the youth, and all of us showing up for this beautiful life.
May this song unite our hearts as we walk this road together.”
Listen to My Family here
My Family - Scinnlaece
Album III from the Protect the Porkies Music Contest, 2025.
To learn more about Protect the Porkies go to: protecttheporkies.com
Listen to Mother Superior here
Mother Superior - Protect the Porkies
Here's to the Fighters - Protect the Porkies
Album II from the Protect the Porkies Music Contest, 2025.
To learn more about Protect the Porkies go to: protecttheporkies.com
Listen to Here's to the Fighters here
Discount Nickel & Copper - Protect the Porkies
Album I from the Protect the Porkies Music Contest, 2025.
To learn more about Protect the Porkies go to: protecttheporkies.com
Listen to Discount Nickel & Copper here
~ Mushroom Art ~
These pieces are drawings carved directly onto the pore surface of a kind of wild mushroom commonly called "Artist Conks." Each specimen was sustainability harvested by the artist herself in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan during the summer of 2022. While the mushrooms are fresh, their porous side is white, but it turns brown when scratched or touched, making the process of creating a composition a very delicate one. Once the drawings are finished, the mushrooms are allowed to dry, and the images are preserved on their surfaces for decades without any kind of varnish.
I am truly fond of this technique because it makes me feel more connected to the forests in which these mushrooms grow. I believe that this is a highly sustainable method of creating art: only the fruiting body of the mushroom is harvested, leaving the mycelium to keep growing and creating more mushrooms next year – a process no more damaging to the organism than the plucking of an apple from an apple tree. The act of collecting the specimens also serve to scatter their spores around the forest, thus contributing to their reproductive cycle.
Ganoderma applanatum grows all around the United States, but it doesn’t make a profitable canvas for art stores and big companies due to its delicate nature and the short time frame for creating a piece (only a few days) before the mushrooms start to dry out. The search for the mushroom, the act of harvesting, and the creation of the artwork itself are all practices in mindfulness which establish a direction relationship between the artist, her medium, and Nature as a whole.
Please contact me about any inquiries or commissioned pieces.
