Pattern Language

Between Black Bars

Ben Miller

Glass

7" × 12.5"

Patterns are the language of abstraction. Through the convergence of basic shapes and simple elements, a construct is created that can be read and interpreted by the viewer. While these patterns might be interpreted differently, the language being viewed and read is the exact same. The pattern in...

Gray No. 10

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

40" × 30"

Randall Steinke's painting captures a vibrant portrait of a woman with striking orange hair and luminous green eyes, her smile engaging the viewer directly. Her form is rendered in warm, peachy tones, with subtle shading defining her features and graceful pose. The background bursts with contrast...

House Of Vintage

Kristen St. Clair

Ceramic, Layered Resin, Found Wallpaper and Photos

11" × 7.5"

The Looking Glass or “Window” series explores the idea of peeking into someone’s normal daily life. Picture walking through a neighborhood in the evening and catching glimpses of their world through each person's window, a little vignette/snapshot in time and the story that tells. Of course ph...

No pressure, but...

Kristen St. Clair

Ceramic, Layered Resin, Old Love Letters, Life Magazine Clippings

11" × 8"

The Looking Glass or “Window” series explores the idea of peeking into someone’s normal daily life. Picture walking through a neighborhood in the evening and catching glimpses of their world through each person's window, a little vignette/snapshot in time and the story that tells. Too often wo...

Toro

Mila Garcia

Oil, oil sticks, graphite

72" × 66"

Toro is part of the collection, The state of being intertwined. I started this painting after my trip to Italy. The colors are very Italy influence. I work with oil on canvas and approach each piece as an open dialogue – between myself and the materials, between color and shape. The pattern ...

Meet You There

Carolyn Kerecman

Ink

22" × 30"

This work brings me back to a hot summer night, when inky shadows blanketed everything like the softest velvet. Street lamps illuminated the dense growth of trees as if the sun were making its last effort to peek through their leaves. Something about summer nights feels endless, as if time freeze...

Through The Looking Glass 3

Kristen St. Clair

Ceramic, Layered Resin, Found Objects and Photos

10" × 8"

The Looking Glass or “Window” series explores the idea of peeking into someone’s normal daily life. Picture walking through a neighborhood in the evening and catching glimpses of their world through each person's window, a little vignette/snapshot in time and the story that tells.

Gray No. 12

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

48" × 36"

Randall Steinke's painting presents a vibrant, stylized portrait of a figure with a subtle smirk and an upward gaze. Textured brushstrokes define the cascading yellow hair, framing a pale face with rosy cheeks. The subject wears richly patterned attire: a vivid green garment embellished with intr...

Glimmer

Kate Ferrell

Mixed media

36" × 36"

This piece speaks to hope in challenging times.

Pink Quilt 1 (April 7, 2021 - 1:43pm)

Nora Schuchat

cotton thread, watercolor, gouache handmade paper

20" × 16"

The title refers to the specific date and time when the reference image was taken. In this series, I photographed my daughter's baby quilt at different times of day (in the morning, after nap, etc). The quilt is a metaphor for how a seemingly rigid structure, the grid of quilt squares, can be ma...

margaret and the heartbeat of home

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype with stitching

20" × 10"

Home has its own rhythm—a heartbeat measured in familiar places, repeated gestures, and cherished memories. Through layered patterns, transparent passages, and a luminous heart, this clay monotype celebrates the quiet cadence of a life well lived, reminding us that home is less a destination than...

In bloom

Mila Garcia

Oil, oil sticks, graphite

64" × 47"

In bloom was a silhouette exploration. I wanted to play with very thinned out paint against that bright blue shape that moves through the painting. Keeping the balance as a whole might have been the crux of the matter at some point. Values made the difference.

Coda Block 108.VII

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

18" × 18"

Coda Block is a German-invented barcode system, one of several coding systems I use in the Marking Code series to render the words "one hundred eight" as pattern. The title comes from music, where a coda brings a larger composition to its close. In this panel, the printer paper folded mid-print, ...

Fused in Fire Ring

Kim Harrell

Fine silver, 18k gold, diamond

After making several large fine silver vessels this past summer, I was left with remnants after cutting the shapes I wanted. I collected these thinking I would melt them down into an ingot to forge into a spoon or other silver. As I turned the pieces around in my hand I had a thought to fuse them...

Stacks VIII

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

24" × 24"

At a press in Verona, Italy, I photographed the piles of freshly printed pages for my monograph 108 before they were cut and bound. As the uncut pages amassed on the pallet, their edges became streaked with color and tone. Each new sheet and each imperfect stacking shifted the horizontal lines. I...

Portable Luminosity #31

Britt Block

pastel

5" × 7"

PORTABLE LUMINOSITY These images are portable beacons of luminosity intended to connect each viewer with the radiance of things, with the depth of our lives, and with the truth of bees. Bees live both as wild animals and as an inner metaphor: we are just like bees. We neglect this about ourselve...

So Long

Carolyn Kerecman

ink

18" × 24"

A few summers ago, I returned to the Gulf Coast of Mississippi for the first time since I was a kid. I was immediately struck by the salty smell of the bayou, and how it brought in a rush of memories I thought were long forgotten. Though much of the landscape has changed over time, echoes of what...

Coda Block 108.III-IV (Diptych)

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

24" × 36"

Coda Block is a German-invented barcode system, one of several coding systems I use in the Marking Code series to render the words "one hundred eight" as pattern. The title comes from music, where a coda brings a larger composition to its close. This diptych presents the same printed barcode twic...

Night Passage

Chas Martin

Watercolor

14" × 20"

Presence is a state of mind that is timeless, a centering pattern. This is my attempt to describe the indescribable state of oneness that often comes in dreams. It is unbound by gravity or reality. I have often thought that I lived in the southwest in a former life. So, perhaps this is a memory o...

What If

Kate Ferrell

Mixed media (acrylic, collage, graphite, pastel)

36" × 36"

A reminder to stay open to possibility...

Ode to Coalescing

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

20" × 20"

Ode to Coalescing contemplates what it means for many disparate parts to gather into something we recognize as a whole. We are atoms, particles, energy, breath, memory, and emotion—constantly moving, exchanging, and becoming. The work imagines existence as a kind of cloud: diffuse at its edges...

Grand Entry Woman

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and added color is pigment gathered from the earth. The process is long, physically intensive and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long history of the indigenous cu...

Spring Daisy Fields

Deanna Strachan-Wilson

Watercolor, India ink, and white and metallic acrylic pen.

14" × 11"

"Spring Daisy Fields" explores pattern through repetition, variation, and the rhythms found in nature. The daisy repeats across a patchwork of watercolor squares and rectangles, creating an interplay between the structure of the grid and the organic shapes of the flowers. A palette of light yell...

From above I saw a river

Mila Garcia

Oil, oil sticks, graphite

59" × 50"

From Above I Saw a River is part of the State of being intertwined collection and now showing at Pattern language. I was exploring Blues and greens, different varieties of them, green- blues, purple- blues, blue -blues. bright green. An unintentional analog palette. What I enjoy the most in ...

Deja Vu

Chas Martin

Mixed media

16" × 9"

You know that curious feeling. The experience isso familiar, a pattern you've seen or felt before. But what does it mean? Quantum physics introduces the idea of parallel worlds where every possibility exists at the same time, a pattern that repeats everywhere and forever. We're all part of one un...

Current Event

Chas Martin

Mixed media

18" × 18"

Living in the flow. Two figures leaning into an invisible river of water? time? information? data? noise? Whatever flows our way is made bearable through relationships and shared experience. The balance that sustains us is a pattern of comfort, trust, and sustainability. Shipping included.

Portable Luminosity #69

Britt Block

pastel

18" × 30"

PORTABLE LUMINOSITY These images are portable beacons of luminosity intended to connect each viewer with the radiance of things, with the depth of our lives, and with the truth of bees. Bees live both as wild animals and as an inner metaphor: we are just like bees. We neglect this about ourselve...

Lokah Samastah

Lita Lovestone

Handwoven Textile

30" × 31"

I have been inspired by mantras and prayers that can be chanted, prayed or sung to help calm and focus the mind. This piece is based on the mantra "Lokah Samastah Sukinoh Bhavantu", a Sanskrit prayer which can be translated as "May all Beings Everywhere Be Happy and Free". To create this piece ...

Daisies

Deanna Strachan-Wilson

Watercolor, India ink, and white and metallic acrylic pen.

12" × 9"

Inspired by Oregon's spring flowers, I chose Daisies as the floral motif for this watercolor portrait. Daisies are widely recognized for their bright, cheerful appearance and, in flower language, symbolize new beginnings, hope, and transformation. In this expressive watercolor portrait, warm co...

Spirit

Lita Lovestone

Handwoven Textile

10" × 6.5"

"Spirit" is based on an encoded design which translates a word or phrase to create a woven pattern. This structured pattern is inlaid into the fabric in a random manner to represent the way Spirit moves through our lives in unpredictable and mysterious ways. My work has often explored the inters...

Locked and Loaded

Ben Miller

Glass

7" × 15"

This sculpture is influenced by artifacts of the past, checkered with patterns and designs, ambiguous and yet profound. This work exudes a sense of familiarity while simultaneously remaining anonymous in nature, forcing viewers to inspect more closely in an attempt to comprehend what they are lo...

lawrence and the cycles of life

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype with stitching

20" × 10"

Circles have no beginning and no end. They echo the patterns and cycles of life—breathing, growing, remembering, and returning. Layer upon layer, they create a visual rhythm that speaks of connection, resilience, and the beauty found in repetition. My dad would always tell me not to worry because...

Wave Form

Dorothy Raymond

Fiber

31" × 49"

Wave Form is one of a series of abstract landscapes created using free-hand cut organic shapes from different colors and textures of fabrics,The ocean has its own rhythm and melody. “Wave Form” echoes the ebb and flow of ocean waves as its organic fragments emerge, recede, float and overlap.

Trio of Teabags

Kim Harrell

Copper, enamel, annealed steel

2" × 1.75"

I took a liquid enameling class in the summer of 2025 and fell in love with the process. We stitched 3D forms out of thin copper sheet using copper wire; dipped them into white liquid enamel and fired them in a kiln. Some of the pieces were removed from the kiln and then hit directly with a torch...

Summer Daisy Fields

Deanna Strachan-Wilson

Watercolor, Stabilo pencil, and white and metallic acrylic pen.

14" × 11"

"Summer Daisy Field" explores pattern through repetition, variation, and the rhythms found in nature. The daisy repeats across a patchwork of watercolor squares and rectangles, creating an interplay between the structure of the grid and organics shapes of the flowers. A summer palette of earthy...

Gayatri Lotus

Lita Lovestone

Handwoven Textile

15" × 19"

This piece was inspired by one of my favorite mantras that I have worked with for a number of years. The Gayatri Mantra is one of the most famous Sanskrit mantras (or prayers) and can be translated as "May the Divine Source of all Light illuminate our understanding". The words to this mantra we...

Yes, But...

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

57" × 37"

This is the first wall-hung sculpture I created after transitioning from painting to assemblage in 2018 when, on impulse, I started sticking objects to a large canvas on which I had been painting, and in the process discovered a whole new world. In this piece, I began with a wood panel, then ...

“Paper” Chain Necklace

Kim Harrell

Sterling silver

Tactile, light and musical, this piece sings a song of childhood memories crafting paper chains for birthday parties or to decorate a Christmas tree. Truly the embodiment of Pattern Language in the repetition of the links and the mysterious texture on each one. Made of sterling silver, each li...

The Red Road

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

24" × 18"

The Red Road The Red Road is a deeply personal meditation on living in "a good way", not as a destination or a perfect path, but as a practice of intention, relationship, and continual return. The composition moves through complexity toward the red path at its center, reflecting the choices...

Magician

Chas Martin

Acrylic paint on paper mounted on cradled panel

8" × 8"

Magician plays with patterns through the repetition of circles and implied circles. This piece is an acrylic sketch for a sculpture though as always, there was some deviation from this sketch. Visualization through sketching and painting help me anticipate how the final sculpture may look. Of cou...

Cultivation no. 5

Kate Ferrell

Mixed media

24" × 18"

This series began as a paper for wiping off my brush. The color combination drew my attention, and I began playing, exploring, and adding thin layers of wet paint. Botanical shapes eventually emerged. This piece/series is a welcome reminder to let go and see what unfolds.

The Muse

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

18" × 24"

The Muse explores the elusive process of finding inspiration. Beginning with a fertile but sparse “blank slate,” fragments of pattern gradually gather into color, complexity, and abundance. At its heart is the feeling of finding the flowers in one’s stomach, that moment when curiosity becomes ...

Agua de Luz

Lita Lovestone

Handwoven Textile

45" × 20"

"Agua de Luz" is inspired by the view of the ocean from my weaving studio. Woven on a 4 shaft floor loom, It features an inlaid overshot encoded design based on the Spanish words which mean "Water of Light" and evokes the sparkle effect of sunlight shining on water. This finely woven textile is...

Sleepy Evening an Ocean Away

Carolyn Kerecman

Ink

18" × 24"

In the back of my mind, an image replays endlessly: sitting inside the car, I watched rain fall off of endless leaves and branches. The stark illumination of the headlights gave the scene an otherworldly quality, while water running down the windshield reflected and bent the leaves until they too...

The deer sing to the elk

Mila Garcia

Oil and oil sticks

50" × 50"

The deer sing to the elk, this painting marks a point in time. Artistically starting to use more colors and using more values. Changing the way I had been approaching painting. Building new patterns takes patience, practice and some failed paintings. Took some years to get here, to this particula...

Possibilities

Dorothy Raymond

Fiber

26" × 41"

Inspired by aerial photographs of land and water, Possibilities is one of a series of abstract landscapes created using free-hand cut organic shapes from different colors and textures of fabrics, then layered and stitched to recreate the lines of interaction between layers of sea and land. Lines ...

Coda Block 108.VI

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

18" × 18"

Coda Block is a German-invented barcode system, one of several coding systems I use in the Marking Code series to render the words"one hundred eight" as pattern. The title comes from music, where a coda brings a larger composition to its close. Here the barcode's thick and thin lines repeat acros...

Red Bow

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

51" × 24"

This sculpture was born when a friend sent me the wood panel which supports the rest of the assemblage. The panel sat on my studio floor for months until I found the round light fixture at the top center in a thrift store, after which the piece almost created itself. Other components include some...

Poppies

Deanna Strachan-Wilson

Watercolor, India ink, and white and metallic acrylic pen.

12" × 9"

Inspired by Oregon Spring flowers, I selected poppies for this watercolor portrait's floral motif. Rich in symbolism, red poppies are most widely associated with remembrance, but they also carry meanings of rest, love, passion, and enduring beauty. I am drawn to this layering of meanings and th...

Recursive Night Blooming

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

18" × 24"

Recursive Night Blooming explores repetition and return through the quiet persistence of flowers that bloom after dark. Often overlooked because they exist beyond the limelight of sunlight, night-blooming flowers open in darkness, providing essential nectar and sustenance for the species that dep...

Meandering

Kate Ferrell

Mixed media (acrylic, graphite, pastel)

22" × 30"

This abstract painting speaks to learning to embrace the twists and turns of life…

dorothy had a big one

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype

22" × 8.5"

Birthdays remind us that life is stitched together one year at a time. The years create PATTERNS—some beautiful, some bittersweet—but together they tell the story of who we've become. I don't want to rush past those moments or pretend they don't matter. I choose to celebrate every birthday becaus...

Grass Patch

Mila Garcia

Oil and oil sticks

37.5" × 31.5"

Grass Patch, took some turns until I knew what the painting was going to be about. It became this repetition of shape navigating shift of temperature, and brightness from the salmon pink to the dull green greys. Color is all about relationship. How it relates with the colors next to it. Greys wil...

Two Women No. 6

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

36" × 48"

This vibrant painting by Randall Steinke captures two women in a moment of unrestrained laughter. The woman on the left, with flowing red hair, smiles broadly, while her companion on the right, with orange hair, throws her head back, eyes closed in mirth, hands near her ears. Bold outlines define...

Blizzard Butterfly Dancer

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and the red and yellow color is pigment gathered from the earth and hand painted after printing. The process is long and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long histo...

Tuttu Migration

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

18" × 24"

Tuttu Migration explores the seasonal movement of caribou across a land understood not as backdrop, but as relation. Human, animal, plant, earth, sky, weather, and season exist within an interconnected system in which the movement of one affects the lives of many. The work takes its name from ...

Gunner

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

17" × 12"

In this assemblage I started with a children's toy consisting of beads on wire on a wood base, and added, among other things, a carved wood post, a doll's arm, a darning egg, two wood spoons, a set of glass doorknobs, a wood snake, part of a fluorescent light tube, and a toy soldier. Also, a vint...

Cultivation no. 6

Kate Ferrell

Mixed media

24" × 18"

This series began as a paper for wiping off my brush. The color combination drew my attention, and I began playing, exploring, and adding thin layers of wet paint. Botanical shapes eventually emerged. This piece/series is a welcome reminder to let go and see what unfolds.

Gray No. 9

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

40" × 30"

This vibrant painting by Randall Steinke presents a stylized portrait, capturing a figure with striking bright yellow hair that cascades down the left side. The subject, rendered with distinct facial planes and blue eyes, gazes downwards while one hand gently touches their head. They wear a rich ...

Pair of Houses

Kim Harrell

Copper and enamel

4.75" × 2.75"

I took a liquid enameling class in the summer of 2025 and fell in love with the process. We stitched 3D forms out of thin copper sheet using copper wire; dipped them into white liquid enamel and fired them in a kiln. Some of the pieces were removed from the kiln and then hit directly with a torch...

Portable Luminosity #59

Britt Block

pastel

5" × 7"

PORTABLE LUMINOSITY These images are portable beacons of luminosity intended to connect each viewer with the radiance of things, with the depth of our lives, and with the truth of bees. Bees live both as wild animals and as an inner metaphor: we are just like bees. We neglect this about ourselve...

Gray No. 7

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

40" × 30"

Randall Steinke's painting presents a vibrant portrait of a smiling woman, her blonde hair and bright blue eyes capturing a joyful expression. She leans forward, her right hand gently touching her ear, while a pink polka-dotted shirt and a distinctive circular pendant adorn her. The background bu...

Anticipation

Chas Martin

Acrylic on paper mounted on cradled panel

8" × 8"

Anticipation focuses on one pattern while disregarding others. It frames the reality we want to experience. This piece is an acrylic sketch for a sculpture I have yet to produce. Visualization through sketching and painting help me anticipate how the final sculpture may look. Of course, anything ...

Pinaskwi ~ Butterfly Dancer

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and added color is pigment gathered from the earth. The process is long, physically intensive and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long history of the indigenous cu...

Green Quilt 2 - January 2, 2:02pm

Nora Schuchat

cotton thread, watercolor, printing paper

20" × 14"

The piece is stitched in a single color thread in different directions. Because of this, the light reflects off of the thread differently and creates a wide range of tones, as well as making the piece interactive and shift when the light or viewer moves. The title refers to the specific date and ...

Brutalist2 Necklace

Kim Harrell

Fine silver

Architecture is a major influence on my work. I am attracted to the engineered precision of form and line applied to a sturdy structure. Brutalism is of particular interest to me because I love how concrete embodies the texture and sculptural qualities of these buildings. One of the overlooked qu...

Roots

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

33" × 23"

This sculpture incorporates grapevine roots that I purchased in California's Napa Valley. Other components include some clock parts, a wood bookshelf, a wood tray and a folding wood ruler, configured into a star. Like many of my sculptures, this piece is somewhat, but not quite symmetrical.

eileen was an early bloomer

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype/encaustic

8" × 8"

Like a familiar melody, rhythm emerges through repeated tulip blossoms, branching stems, and marked pathways. Patterns overlap and dissolve into translucent layers of turquoise, suggesting the natural cadence of seasons, growth, and remembrance.

tilly and the tulip forecast

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype

20" × 7"

In this clay monotype, pattern and rhythm become a visual expression of belonging. Repeated tulip forms rise through layered textures like familiar faces in a garden, each contributing to a larger sense of harmony. Through repetition and variation, the work celebrates the beauty of returning—to p...

Stacks IV

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

24" × 24"

At a press in Verona, Italy, I photographed the piles of freshly printed pages for my monograph 108 before they were cut and bound. As the uncut pages amassed on the pallet, their edges became streaked with color and tone. Each new sheet and each imperfect stacking shifted the horizontal lines. I...

Keepsake Box

Kim Harrell

Sterling silver

1.75" × 3"

Historically, I have been obsessed with vessels. To this day I collect vessels and containers of every shape, size and material. This is the first box I have made with a lid. The idea behind the Keepsake Box is explained by its title. The box, a precious thing unto itself, is meant to contain...

Kindred Spirits

Chas Martin

Mixed media

18" × 18"

Three independent figures, two with auras and one without.Is the loner trying to acquire its own aura or to escape the pattern of the other two. The figures are sprite-like in form and motion. They dance in space. But their juxtaposition is entirely up to you. The story changes with each arrangem...

The Land Speaks

Dorothy Raymond

Fiber

24" × 40"

Browns and greens are the colors of the western plains. When you step away from the cities, towns, and cultivated farmland, the landscape may seem empty, flat and featureless from a distance. A closer look reveals more subtleties. You will see bluffs and dry creek beds, pockets of native green gr...

Pilamaya Butterfly Dancer

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and added color is pigment gathered from the earth. The process is long, physically intensive and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long history of the indigenous cu...

The Alchemist's Dream

Kai Two Feathers Orton

Hand-folded artisan paper assemblage

22" × 30"

The Alchemist’s Dream The Alchemist’s Dream contemplates the ancient desire to transform the ordinary into gold, and what that desire reveals about the things we value. Across the composition, fragments of darkness, pattern, and possibility seem to stream toward moments of luminous gold, as th...

flitter

Mary Lynn Baird

clay monotype with stitching

12" × 8"

The hummingbird’s rhythm is a heartbeat of motion—a flicker, a pause, a whisper of wings. Through the layered surfaces of clay monotype, patterns emerge like echoes of flight: curved paths, repeated forms, and delicate marks that trace an invisible dance.

Two Canes

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

50" × 28"

This sculpture combines two trays, two picture frames, a dish rack, a 9-ball billiards rack and, of course, two canes. Among other items this assemblage also includes a banana, a train whistle, a back scratcher, two paint brushes, some pencils, two ducks, two snakes, a goose, a toucan, a fish, a ...

Gray No. 13

Randall Steinke

Oil on Canvas

48" × 36"

This painting presents a stylized portrait of a smiling blonde woman with blue eyes, outlined in vivid red and white. Her hair falls in thick yellow strands with curled ends, and she wears a deep blue garment scattered with small yellow blossoms and a patterned turquoise scarf. Behind her, a teal...

Portable Luminosity #66

Britt Block

pastel

9" × 12"

PORTABLE LUMINOSITY These images are portable beacons of luminosity intended to connect each viewer with the radiance of things, with the depth of our lives, and with the truth of bees. Bees live both as wild animals and as an inner metaphor: we are just like bees. We neglect this about ourselve...

Stacks V

Catherine Eaton Skinner

Encaustic, oil stick, paper on panel

24" × 24"

At a press in Verona, Italy, I photographed the piles of freshly printed pages for my monograph 108 before they were cut and bound. As the uncut pages amassed on the pallet, their edges became streaked with color and tone. Each new sheet and each imperfect stacking shifted the horizontal lines. I...

Bouquet

Dave Kwinter

Assemblage sculpture

42" × 26"

This piece includes some of my favorite things: wood spoons, a wood bowl, clock parts, birds, a picture frame and a vintage shoetree. Also, a potato masher, an old paintbrush and strings of beads. The metal starburst element in the lower middle was originally a tabletop sculpture with a hollow me...

Summer Solstice Butterfly Dancer

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and added color is pigment gathered from the earth. The process is long, physically intensive and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long history of the indigenous cu...

Ataht Butterfly Dancer (Bright Star)

Linda Whitney

Bleed print Mezzotint on hand rocked copper printed on hahnemuhle copperplate paper with hand applied red and yellow earth pigment after printing

30" × 22"

My mezzotints are printed from hand-rocked copper on Huhnemuhle Copperplate paper and added color is pigment gathered from the earth. The process is long, physically intensive and gives time for reflection. Each part of this process is honoring and respecting the long history of the indigenous cu...

Ancestral Echoes

Lita Lovestone

Handwoven Textile

27" × 18"

This piece features a subtle handwoven design in the background of the words "Sacred Earth" in the Nahuatl language (an indigenous language from the region of Mexico where I live) In making this piece I was thinking about how many languages are being lost, and with them the voices of many genera...

Wave Form II

Dorothy Raymond

Fiber

24" × 24"

Wave Form II is part of a series exploring patterns created by placing different shapes, colors and textures of fabric next to each other. There must be a balance between light and dark; smooth and fuzzy; big and small shapes. It started with a doodle. I let the arrangement of the colors and piec...