The Heroine's Paintbox

The Heroine's Paintbox is a new collection of oil paintings and prints. Although they seem very different, these new bold and colorful geometric paintings and my more traditional romantic realism paintings,  both come directly from my obsessions with art and story.

While I love contemporary abstract art, in many ways I find it superficial and sometimes alienating. These color palettes nod to the color pairings of Rothko and the precision of Hilda af Klint, for instance, but at the same time they unpretentiously date back to well before the great names, to early tradesmen's samples and paint powder charts. The paintings are bold, straightforward, honest, harmonious, and somehow serene. They are easy to look at and visually unmysterious, but upon closer inspection the scribbled pencil labels beneath the colors hint at deeper meanings, intricate connections, and untold stories...