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Inktober 2023

Every year Inktober and the prompting of artists friends seem to hit at just the right time. The regular rhythms of the fall tend to sap the vitality of my creative process. This year I continued a focus on imagery from my everyday, stay-at-home-mom life, pushing myself to see more of what is there.  Path Colored pencil on paper Wander Pen on paper Constellation Mixed media on paper Ordinary Time Colored pencil on paper Reliable Felt tip pen on paper Piles Felt tip pen on paper Dream Pen on paper Spiderettes Mixed media on paper Begonia Pen on paper Fasten Mixed media on paper Bounce Mixed media on paper Rise  Colored pencil on paper Knotted Colored pencil on paper
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Eastertide Art Collaboration

 Eastertide is a season of the liturgical church calendar. It marks the 50 days after Easter up to Pentecost Sunday. My current and past church experience has not included a celebration of this season. A group of artists through Redeemer Community Arts, a group I help run at my church, wanted to explore the idea of a longer, sustained focus on the resurrection, time spent with his disciples, and ascension of Jesus and the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. We participated in a retreat where we started a series of collaborative art pieces that we completed in the months afterwards. I am grateful to Claire Howell, Bailey Hughes, and Jacob Rowan for embarking on this project together.  The Things That Make for Peace Kateri Gill & Jacob Rowan Mixed media on paper Children of the Day Kateri Gill & Bailey Hughes Mixed media on paper Subsume Kateri Gill, Bailey Hughes, and Jacob Rowan Mixed media on paper Breath of Life Bailey Hughes & Jacob Rowan Mixed media on paper Transcend (Asce

Inktober 2022

Thanks to come faithful artist friends as accountability, 2022 ended with a spurt of creative energy. These are selected images from my round of "daily" drawings for the Inktober drawing challenge.. All images are colored pencil explorations on paper.  "Flame" "Scrape" "Nest" "Bluff" & "Fairy" "Salty" "Match" "Forget" "Empty" "Kind" "Ponytail" "Farm"

A Picture of Justice

 A friend of mine is working on a book highlighting her experience of violence and injustice. While we were brainstorming ideas for a cover, I created this piece. This mixed media collage is inspired by imagery from a chapter in the book about the author's grandmother.  "The Suitcase"

Narthex Collaborative Art Installation

 Check out this collaborative project! These works were created by myself and three other artists who are a part of Redeemer Community Arts, a collection of individuals dedicated to seasoning the church through creative activity and fellowship. Click the link below to access the blog post and see the work: https://www.redeemercommunityarts.com/blog/narthex-artworks

Lent 2020

 The word Lent derives from the Latin word lente, which means slow and from the Old English word lencten , meaning 'springtime.' On the one hand, this calls our attention to the way time seems to drag by and even stand still during periods of intense grief, suffering, deprivation, and pain; it also points out the corresponding reality that renewal and rebirth often involve a long, slow process of unfolding. -Paul Rankin, As Sparks Fly Upward: Meditation for Lent The following works were created during Lent 2020 in collaboration with 6 other visual artists and 40+ congregational authors from Redeemer Church, PCA to create the above cited devotional book. For more information about the sponsoring ministry, visit the Redeemer Community Arts website Forty Nights Mixed media on paper Descent Spray paint on paper As the Grass Mixed media on paper White Washed Mixed media on paper Thicket Spray paint on paper From all the Places Ink on paper

Advent 2019

Fallow Years

Wager

Di(vision)

As the Sparks Fly Upward

Threshold

Drifter II

Scale

Ties that Bind, Boundaries that Divide

Jackson, MS

Broken to be Remade

To Strive With and Against

Then Moses led Israel forward from the Red Sea,and they marched out to the wilderness of Shur. After traveling for three days through the wilderness without finding water,  they arrived at Marah, where they could not drink its water, because it was too bitter. Hence this place was called Marah.  As the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”  he cried out to the  Lord , who pointed out to him a piece of wood. When he threw it into the water, the water became fresh. -Exodus 15:22-25 Strive Ink, acrylic, gold leaf, wax, wood

Wander

One Flesh

Shroud

The Mark

Two Jobs, two sites...

Tiny Theophanies

"My broken cisterns never could stay filled..." -Jon Foreman

The Sacred Marker

A Lesson From Psalm 139

Should I Forget...

Trimmed and Burning

Community

Senior Art Exhibition - 2011

SENIOR ART EXHIBITION

The Toil It Brought

Hebrew Triptych