In the Thistles drawings, contradictory implications of boundaries and walls is investigated. Inner tensions of separation and permeability, vulnerability and connection, openness and closure, safety and isolation surface through the drawing process.
Thistles are 22” x 10” each; pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper
Thistles 6 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 3 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 4 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 10 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 13 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 18 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 10 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2018
Thistles 16 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 11 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 20 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 24 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2017
Thistles 6 22” x 10” pencil, ink, water colors, gouache, oil pastels on paper 2018