Walking Flower. 23” x 30”” Arches 300 lb watercolor paper. Derwent Inktense, Faber Castell Polychromos, Caran d’Ache Aquarelle, Graphite

Poppies 1. 23” x 30”” Arches 400 lb watercolor paper. Derwent Inktense, Faber Castell Polychromos, Caran d’Ache Aquarelle, Gouache, Graphite.

23” x 30” 300lb watercolor paper. Derwent Inktense, Faber Castell Polychromos, Caran d’Ache Aquarelles, Prismacolor Premier

12” x 16” graphite sketches, cotton paper, digitally manipulated.

1. The flying poppy

2. The inverted flower

3. The carnivorous acorn

Inspired by the Walking Palm trees that are capable of moving themselves closer to sources of water.

20” x 25” Mi-Teintes velvet paper. Derwent Inktense, Faber Castell Polychromos, Caran d’ache Aquarelle, Gouache, Graphite.

A process exploration: oil, graphite, photo transfer and embroidery study

It all starts with a donut hole. Plant one in the ground and watch a Donut Tree grow.

Two studies:

11”x14” graphite and oil on canvas

18”x24” ink and graphite on toned sketch paper

It all starts with a donut hole.

18”x24” botanical study of Donut Tree seed pods, bloom, and leaves

Botanical study of a Donut Tree Bloom.

18”×24” pencil, ink, oil pastels, gouache

A collection of my photos about plants that grow in the street. The macro images I’ve captured here evoke expansive scenes of landscape photography. Scroll down for more.

16” x 12” photographic print.

I like to document my travels and record what I see. These are my carbon pencil road trip sketches of various plants and experiences across Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. Overlooked plants along the roads and highways I travel on are of special interest to me. Many of them are incredibly resilient, surviving and even thriving with no help from humans. I believe they deserve more study and documentation. Who knows what we can learn from them and how these learnings can help our environmental future? Scroll down to see more.

Plants and Concrete: Aggressive Coexistence

6” x 6” watercolor paper, organic materials (plants), primer, cement.

Plants display tenacity in the world around us. They seem to survive in places where they are either not welcome or not nurtured to succeed. This is especially evident when we look at the common use of concrete in urban and suburban communities. As a man-made material, concrete does not have a symbiotic relationship with plants. Yet the two have coexisted for centuries.

The idea behind Aggressive Coexistence is to get people to notice this relationship by showing dimensional moments of the two together. The plants gathered are preserved with an acrylic primer. By taking the color out of the situation, we see them as symbols rather than specific plants. They are then pressed into wet concrete that hardens, thereby freezing the moment in time. These pieces remind us of the relationship – the perpetual rivalry between the organic and the man-made, and the eternal struggle to coexist.