2022 Highlights

I enjoy taking part in community projects to raise money for charities such as the recent painted Adirondack chairs for Whidbey Island Nourishes. The money raised went to help feed needy children on the island. This was an online auction project. I chose to paint colorful tulips on my chair which I kept white in keeping with a botanical look.

I was invited to enter a ‘forgery’ for the Froggwell Art Institute ‘Forgery’ Annual Exhibit this year. I was asked to copy a Marianne North painting. Marianne North (1830–1890) was a Victorian painter and traveler. She travelled the world alone, discovering and recording plants, animals, landscapes and places. She also collected many new species of plants. Her works in oil on paper attached to panels are on show in the gallery that she had built, The Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew. I chose to copy the painting ‘A common plant on sandy sea-shores in the tropics’.

An article on me and my work by Margaret Bendet, was included in the summer edition of the Whidbey Life Magazine.

My orchid painting Paphiopedilum wardii was accepted into the Flora of Southeast Asia exhibition Singapore for November 2022 continuing into February 2023. This exhibit is to drawn attention to plants that have disappeared or are disappearing in Asia.

My paintings of enlarged dried poppies were shown in the Garden Show at Museo Gallery in April.