I have been an advocate of eco-friendly practices in my daily living for many decades now, beginning with local participation as a young teen in the very first Earth Day Celebration in 1970. Over the years, I have increased my environmental practices, to the point where I found it necessary to not only respond to, but to prioritize my art as environmentally responsible.
In doing so, it became essential for me to make a distinct change in the materials I use in my artwork. As a result, I have
This collection highlights my journey as an earth-centered, responsible artist, with colláges created in a variety of sizes; almost 100% eco-friendly and produced to bring attention to our natural world and the risk of extinctions on many levels. Using only recycled paper, canvases, and wooden panels (birch cradleboard), repurposed found objects, eco-friendly Natural Earth Paints, glues, and varnishes, I hope to personally do no (artist) harm while colláging a greener future.
discovered colláge; this time using
only sustainable, earth-friendly
resources. Inspired by colláge techniques in expressing my love of nature, my artwork also brings attention to the natural world as a source of serenity, and as an omen of what we have to lose.
August 2026 Colláge of the Month
Seeds of Resistance
This small-format collage on cradleboard explores the tension between rootedness and emergence. Diagonal energy pulls the eye across the panel — warm yellows catching light, blues suggesting depth, ghosted florals and organic greens pressing in from the edges. White dots punctuate the surface like spores or cells, a visual rhythm pulsing beneath the movement.
At the center of the composition, flexible figures stretch upward — simplified, gestural, almost playful. They might be human, or they might be something older: mushroom forms, fruiting bodies reaching toward light while their true work happens below. Beneath the surface, implied connections weave between them, a mycelial suggestion that what sustains us runs far deeper than what's visible. These figures reach not in isolation but in communion, their networks quietly nourishing the earth they rise from.
The 5×5 format feels intimate, almost like a talisman — something to hold rather than simply observe.
