The Puerto Rico series was an eight-month making journey heavily influenced by my 100-Day Project and challenged my process and self-imposed boundaries , revealing with each reworked composition how realism becomes abstraction when paintings are cut-up, collaged, altered, torn apart, rearranged and cut-up again. Inspired by a trip circumnavigating this beautiful and buoyant island, the series brings together watercolor collages with experimentation in mixed media blending ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and collage to illustrate the character and charm of Puerto Rico.

“Vista, Viejo San Juan” and “Cassiopea (Jellyfish)” on view in the main gallery at Water Street Studio’s 17th Anniversary Exhibition Sep 11 - Oct 03, with the balance of the collection upstairs in my Microgallery for the month of September.