Big 5 Plus -50 x 48 - $3000

When visiting Alaska it is always a quest to spot the Big 5: moose, sheep, wolf, caribou and bear, however there are so many others we saw I had to include them.

Hand painted fabric, digitally cut fused applique, machine quilted with silk thread.

Is This Goodbye? 37 x 46 $2000

The sea ice serves as home and hunting ground for the polar bear. It camouflages him from his only predator, man, and hides him as he ambushes his prey. As the earth warms and the sea ice melts, precious polar bear habitat is irrevocably lost, as is access to the nutrient rich sea mammals that the polar bear depends on. The Arctic is the fastest warming region on earth, and current estimates predict a decline in wild polar bear populations of ~30% by 2050. But polar bears are just the poster child for the effects of climate change in the Arctic. For how many other species will this also be goodbye?

On the Wing

47 x 59, $3000

Tree Rings

52h x 69w $5000

Tree rings offer us a unique historical view of our essential ecosystems; a window to variations in Earth’s past climate. As you look at my abstracted tree, I encourage you to pause to think about how mankind’s devastating impact on our planet will be recorded in the future. In Apocalyptic Planet, Craig Childs says, “The ancient mosaic of different habitats that interacted with one another in the original climax forest is gone, replaced with a tangled mess that may require hundreds, even thousands of years to rise back to true diversity.”