Lake Superior Landscapes

Lake Superior Landscapes

I was born in Milwaukie, Wisconsin but was raised both in the Detroit area and in Northern Indiana.  However, most summer our family travelled to Northern Wisconsin, the home of my cousins on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands.  To visit family, but also to visit memories, I have returned most years of my adulthood to that beautiful lake and landscapes.. I started working on a body of waterscapes , mostly the view of Madeline Island and the ever changing color of the water and the sky in 2019.

Puget Sound Landscapes

Puget Sound Landscapes

I used to travel to the San Juan Islands in the beautiful Puget Sound each summer when I was a young adult. Somehow, I stopped going there. In retrospect I feel I have been distracted, or displaced- with my mind and thoughts in other places the last 25 years. I took a wrong turn. And missed out on someplace so close to home.

I started thinking of those waters and their islands of shapes and sizes. I’m so happy to have returned to them this spring, (although I sorely miss the company of the orcas whales that used to dance alongside you on the ferry.) And when you are there, it’s another world. The spell of size and amount of islands ( spread from Seattle area to north of Vancouver, Canada) captivates you.

This body of Puget Sound monotypes is dedicated to refocusing on this sacred space. I hope it is the beginning of many more art journeys and artworks attempting to translate their sheer size and hypnotic beauty on paper.