About

 Why Recycled Magazine Pages?

Growing up in Nebraska, I was the kid with her pockets full of treasures collected along the way – heart-shaped stones, leaves and twigs, birds' nests, wild violets, crushed soda cans, paper gum wrappers in cool colors. I gathered a blend of treasures from the natural world and, well, trash.

And now, I'm that adult.

 When I come upon such a treasure, I see the transformation from what others call junk into art. It's just the way my brain works.

 That's how it was when I first started incorporating scraps of magazine pages into my art. I had saved a fragment of a magazine page torn from the middle of an image. I don't even remember what the image was, it was so abstracted. I loved the texture and color of that random magazine page scrap, so I created my own abstract painting around it.

 As I continued to play with this idea, I started to move from solely abstract art to more figurative art. I began to form realistic images out of these bitty random magazine page scraps. Goldfinches, blue jays, ravens, butterflies, all created from little scraps of recycled magazine pages, began to emerge. The natural beauty I've loved since I was a child has come to life in my own unique and unexpected way.

 

About the Artist

I have been a lifelong, mostly self-taught artist. My bachelor's degree and graduate studies are in music. Now, instead of performing concertos and studying counterpoint, I create my own uniquely distinctive artwork from bits of recycled magazine pages.

I've shown my work at art shows such as The Ann Arbor Street Art Fair, the Original, Chicago's Old Town Art Fair, The Plaza Art Fair in Kansas City, and through galleries. My work is in private collections in the U.S. and abroad.