Figurative
These figurative works are inspired by dreams, theatre, circus, or poetry that touched me. I'm drawn to the story or our lives. Often, what is revealed is a rawness: vulnerability, courage, resistance, resilience. A moment capturing a shared human experience: the quiet, bold, unknown, practiced & the spent.
48x36x1.5 Mixed Media on Canvas. Sold. Love begins in the first stirring of innocent awareness that the possibility of one being loved, of loving, in a rapturous, loud, soul captivating, tender, brassy, quiet, secret way that has to be shouted to the heavens..that this possibility is truly one's own if only one is courageous enough to go for it.
36x36x1.5" Mixed Media on Canvas Standing still, one can be observed as completely normal... and yet there is a wildness always stirring inside, hidden from view. Of course. So what's normal?
36x36 Mixed Media on Canvas. Exhibited Thousand Words_ CORE New Art Space, Lakewood
48x36 Mixed Media on Canvas; 38x50 Framed Private Collection Exhibit History: O'Hanlon Art Center, Mill Valley, CA
30x40 Mixed Media on Canvas - Sold. Exhibited: 2021 - "The Salon" National Competition: Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA Exhibited ZhouB-KC Art Center, KC, MO
30x40x1.5"Mixed Media on Canvas Featured: ZhouB KC Spirit Gallery Exhibition: 10/2024-1/2025
Mixed Media on 18x18"Cradled Panel
Mixed Media on 12x12"Cradled Panel Exhibited: Simply Smashing, Campbell, CA: JCOs Art Haus Los Gatos CA
36x36 Mixed Media on Canvas Exhibited: Gallery 24, Los Gatos, CA Inspired by Poet Mark Nepo's Cancer Survival Story Honoring life's challenges that push us to grow beyond what we thought was possible...
14x14 Mixed Media on Canvas. Private Collection. Exhibited: O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
12x12 Mixed Media on Cradled Panel - Sold. Exhibit: 2021 = Installation By Phyllis Jenkins, 10x5' wall, TAAW Open Studios
Mixed Media on 36x36" Wrapped Canvas A restless spirit. I dreamed of running away from the deliciously predictable mundane. Later, running away was a way out of the hugely difficult to the impossibly awful; I learned how to grow in the hot confines anyway. And I learned I was worthy of much more & that the urge to run is a red flag to notice if one is in the right place in life. If not, then you can change it. It's a good thing. Exhibit History: O'Hanlon Center for Art, Mill Valley, CA