Alpine Botanical Quilt Two wild

Alpine Botanical Quilt Two wildMixed media 30" x 40" x 2" on stretched canvas I spent my summer in the Vail Valley, a charming community nestled in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. For the past two years, I have created cyanotypes from the plants around me. I love discovering new species on my hikes and clipping favorites, which I use to produce vibrant blue sunprints. I capture larger botanical elements, like grass fields and trees, as photographs with my iPhone, which I convert into

preening for the other students who watched enviously

allowing my hand to move freely across the canvas

These sweet little perennials grow in my Colorado high alpine garden

I spent my summer in the Vail Valley

Oxygenated is small

Gone was the small classroom with friends I'd had since kindergarten

5″ x 7″ image

Diptych of Two - 24" x 24" each painting on cradled birch panel

Ornamental Grass Two is an original cyanotype on archival watercolor paper

I love the crisp

5" x 7″ image

like grass fields and trees