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During the spring of 2020, I returned to painting after a ten year hiatus. While quarantining with my family, painting became both a shared communal activity as well as a space of refuge. Increasingly the subject of healing became the focus and I looked to engravings of medicinal plants as sources of inspiration for a new body of work, Hortus Conclusus or The Enclosed Garden. Working in a variety of sizes, the paintings of details of the engravings enlarge and abstract the original source material. Here the garden offers a parallel to the theme of isolation and the longing yet inevitability of re-connecting back to the world.
‘Hortus Conclusus’ solo exhibition, Downing Museum
2023
Strangler Fig
Acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
48” x 36” x 1.5”
2022
Heartseed
Acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
48” x 36” x 1.5”
2022
Suffer No Wounds
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
30” x 24” x 1.5”
2022
Eryngium
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
48” x 36” x 1.5”
2022
Heartseed 2
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
28” x 22” x 1.5”
2022
Goldenrod 1
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
16” x 12” x 1.5”
2022
Goldenrod 2
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
14” x 11” x 1.5”
2022
Lavender
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
48” x 36” x 1.5”
2022
Nature Morte
acrylic and metallic paint on canvas
40” x 30” x 1.5”
2022
Installation view of 'Hortus Conclusus'
‘Hortus Conclusus’
Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2023