
After a hiatus of nearly twenty years, I recently returned to collaging. I now mainly use papers I have textured and colored myself, but I also incorporate pieces of my old gouache and pastel paintings and intaglio prints.

“Red, White, & Black”
Painted and found papers

“Evolution”
Painted & found papers

“Jiggles & Squiggles”
Painted & found papers

“Buttons, Buttons”
Painted, purchased, & found papers

“Playing”
Painted & colored papers

“Going Nowhere”
Painted &found papers

“Purple Play”
Painted, purchased, & found papers

“Shades of Purple”
Painted papers

“Eclipse”
Painted paper

“Festival”
Painted papers

“Autumn”
Painted papers

“Four Windows, Four Worlds”
Painted paper

“Circles”
Painted & found papers

“Peek-a-Boo”
Painted & found paper

“Modern Frieze”
Painted papers

“Floating Universes”
Painted & found papers

“Cell Division”
Painted papers

“47”
Painted paper

“State of the Union”
Painted paper, stickers, playing cards

“Party”
Painted paper

“Looking Out”
Painted paper

“Blue Ribbons”
Painted paper & ribbon

“Tornado”
Painted & found papers

“Squish”
Painted paper

“Splat”
Painted paper

“Twirling”
Painted cupcake papers

“Spring Bouquet”
Painted & found paper

“Wild Flowers”
Painted & found paper

“Other Worlds”
Painted & found papers

“Floating Away”
Found & painted paper

“Autumn Night”
Painted papers

“Diptych” (left)
Painted paper

“Diptych” (right)
Painted paper

“Distant Galaxies”
Painted paper

“War of the Worlds”
Painted papers

“Artist’s Map of the Universe”
Painted & purchased paper, yarn

“What-Not”
Printed & purchased papers, bark

”Insanity”
Painted & purchased papers

“Fractures”
Painted & purchased papers

“… gently down the stream”
Painted & purchased papers

“Unbuttoned”
Painted & found papers

“Floral Float”
Purchased papers

“Jumble”
Painted & purchased papers, bark

“Grotto”
Painted & found papers, plastic net

“Caw of the Wild”
Painted, purchased, & found papers

“Murder at Midnight”
Painted & found papers

“Bouncing”
Painted papers

“Duet”
Painted papers

“Landscape”
Painted paper

“Jungle Cruise”
Painted paper

“Night & Day”
Painted paper

“Secret Garden”
Painted papers

“Pearls of the Universe”
Intaglio print, painted papers

“Undersea Treasure”
Intaglio print, painted paper

“Life’s a Boat”
Painted paper

“Shrimping”
Painted paper & plastic net

“Monochrome”
Painted, printed, found paper, yarn

“Coffee Blues”
Intaglio prints, found papers





During a Saturday workshop in San Francisco in 2006, I created the five 9"x12" Soul Cards shown above. Without reflection, we selected images that appealed to us from piles of magazine photos spread on the floor, then took them to a quiet corner and arranged them on construction paper until they somehow felt "right."