Early Still Life Work, 1983 - 89

Potted Plant, Oil Pastel, c.1985

Tiger Lilies, Colored Pencil, c. 1982

Rose, Lithograph, 1986

Still Life with Hat, Graphite on rag board, 1987

Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 1989-92

Still Life, 1989. Acrylic on rag board, 15 x 15 1/2 inches. Collection, Ingrid Koller, St. Paul, Minnesota

Still Life: Flowers in a Vase, 1992. Oil on Canvas, 14 x 14 inches. Collection, F. and C. Westendorp, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Still Life: Flowers, 1992. Oil on Rag Board, 16 x 16 inches. Collection, John Borst

Still LIfe: Flowers in a White Vase, 1992. Oil on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches. Collection, Mark Duff, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Still Life: Sunflowers, 1990. Oil Pastel on Rag Board, 27 1/2 x 20 inches. Collection, Jayne Westendorp-Holland, Chicago, Ill.

Still Life: Peonies II, 1990. Oil Pastel on Rag Board, 19 1/2 x 16 inches. Collection, Jayne Westendorp-Holland, Chicago, Ill.

Flower Skeleton, 1992. Oil on Masonite, 48 x 48 inches. Collection, Steve Muke, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Still Life, 1992. Oil and Cement Dust on Canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Collection, Mike and Karen Clift, Sheridan, Wyoming.

Amsterdam I, 1990, Oil Pastel on Rag Board, 28 3/4 x 16 inches. Collection, Harold Adams, St. Paul, Minnesota

Fading Tulips, 1991. Oil Pastel on Rag Board, 32 x 16 inches,

The Suspended Series, 1993 - 1999

Suspended Pear, 1993. Oil on Canvas, 12 x 12 inches. Collection, Mike and Karen Clift, Sheridan, Wyoming.

Untitled, 1996. Mixed Media with White Stone. c. 6 x 8 in.

Untitled, 1996. Mixed Media with Cone. 40 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.

Untitled, 1994. Mixed Media with Petrified Wood, 57 x 18 1/4 in.

Untitled, 1996. Mixed Media, 37 3/4 x 14 in.

Untitled, 1997. Mixed Media, 40 1/4 x 40 1/4 in.

The Suspended Series is an investigation into the challenge of presenting a single object in such a way as to see it best. To place an object on a table is to limit its visibility. In suspending things I found I could contemplate them in a new way in terms of an otherwise invisible gesture. It also activated the picture plane in ways that were surprising and gratifying. These images led directly to the Stone Poem series, and, more recently, the Remnants Series.

Ode to Yoko, 1995. Mixed Media with White Spruce Cone, 36 x 36 in.

A Gift from Kay, 1996. Mixed Media with Redwood Cone. 44 1/2 x 41 3/4 in.

Meditation Boxes

Untitled Box with Hemlock Cone, 1998. 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.

Untitled Box with Stone and Feather, 1998. 7 1/2 x 4 x 3 3/8 in.

Meditation Box, 1998. Mixed Media, 14 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 6 3/4.

Boxed Stick, 1998. MIxed Media, 13 3/8 x 7 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.

Twelve Easter Sisters, 1998. Untitled Found Box with 12 White Spruce Cones.