Farm to Table is a collection of watercolor collages intended to ride the line between realism and abstraction.  Created in response to the boundless beauty of Midwest farms, it celebrates the heartland in all its bucolic flatness and unincumbered sky.  The series is a story about the many ways farms harness natural resources to support life told through a single repeating shape representing iconic farm imagery:  the face of a windmill pumping water, the crown of a tree shading a barn, a bale serving up hay in the pasture, a root vegetable breaking ground, the sunrise following the crack of dawn.  The work also speaks to the magic in all of us, standing in harmony with what makes us the same while standing out as individuals with what makes us different.  Coming soon to Limestone at the Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave., Batavia IL. Read more about the making of Farm to Table on my blog .

As a mixed media artist I work in series, making many iterations of the same image to be cut up and reassembled to tell my story. In a society that peddles perfection, my process embraces my belief that the sum of many parts makes an imperfect yet more authentic whole and encourages my viewers to practice curiosity as a path to understanding.