New Squares

Here are some of my new “squares”.  All are created in my studio in Brooklyn (Extreme Paper Studio) out of  handmade paper (my own) with pigments, mounted on canvas.

New Waves, 40x40

Rose Granite Square with Copper Strip, 20x20Aqua Green Square, 36x36

Aqua Green Square 36x36

GREEN TWIST

Green Twist, 18x18

Here’s “Green Twist” which now hangs in a collector’s house in Newburgh, NY.  It was also the catalogue piece for a group show at Women’smade Gallery in Chicago and reproduced in Hand Papermaking Magazine.

Summer at the Beach

Summer at the Beach in the Studio - Beach Chairs Series

Here are images of the Beach Chair Series.   I wanted to do a series with my handmade paper that had gentle folds, floating off the wall, in summer colors.  This evolved into “Summer at the Beach – Beach Chairs”.  Each chair is 24×12.  The big blue Ocean piece at the bottom (above) is 24 x48.  The Small Wave at the top is 40×8.

 

Ripple Triptych, 224x24 each

Ripple Triptych, 224×24 each

Summer at the Beach in the Studio – Beach Chairs Series

Beach Chairs close-up

Summer at the Beach – Beach Chairs at BWAC 2008

WAVES

Here is my piece “Waves”, six feet long, commissioned by a collector.  I worked off a photo of the living room, plus I had originally created a 40 inch “small wave” that the collector admired and that got us talking about creating this piece.    It’s all handmade paper, formed in two overlapping sections and mounted on one long sheet of plexiglass.  I made many layers to get the thickness and texture needed and mixed my pigments to achieve every shade of turquoise possible.  I attached two inch blocks  behind the piece so that the whole thing looks like it is floating off the wall.  I have a top coat of acrylic gloss to give it shine.  The room has wonderful light coming in the full length windows that just lights up the piece like waves glittering.

Lava Flow #5

 

Lava Flow #5 30x48

This is my piece “Lava Flow #5” in a collector’s home.  I did a series called “Lava Flow” to evoke the texture of frozen lava spreading over the earth.  In my art, I like to transform the layers and layers of  paper pulp that I pour into something that looks like rock or stone, but without the actual weight, since it is just handmade paper and pigment.