Two friends who don’t know each other visited the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA this past weekend and sent me pictures of my painting, The Fence as Lace #14, which has been acquired by the museum and is on exhibit through sometime in December. It measures 95” x 62”. To explain the size, this picture is with one of my friends’ friend standing next to it. Thanks to both friends who sent me nice notes and photos!
I outlined the ovals with the skins of photos of snow banks I collaged on the fabric for my March 12x12x12 painting. I have a little more painting to do and then I’ll be finished.
This is the month of February for my new Dates in a Life Walking Project 2026 painting, a year-long painting documenting the number of steps I walked each day. I have documented my steps in paintings since 2016.
I use a system of symbols to represent each thousand steps. Instead of showing exactly how many I walk. The black icons represent up to 9999 steps walked each day, red represents 10,000-19,999 steps and yellow represents 20,000-29,999 steps.
The base monoprinted grid is black, with Florescent Magenta background paint used to signify the days (mostly weekends, but also including holidays, vacations days, and sick days) I was not at work, which usually gives me more time to walk for exercise than the days I am at work.
Under some individual days, there is a painted line of color to represent reasons that may lower or raise the number of steps I walked that day, such as snow, rainy, extreme hot or cold, illness, and vacation.
The painting is created with monoprinted textures of a construction fence as the background, handstamped rubber erasers on fabric which are collaged on the background grid, as well as handpainting and stitching on stiffened fabric.
Below shows January and February and plenty of room on this painting for the rest of the year.
Six paintings hanging closely together on an 8 foot wall. I can squeeze at least one more in on the lower left, and possibly a few more small ones on the bottom. I need a bigger wall.
In January of 2025, I exhibited paintings I created from the results from my playing Wordle. Later that year, I learned that the NY Times offered people the ability to create their own Wordles with 4-7 characters and they can share their puzzle with others to complete.
I created a 7-letter puzzle, and I challenged my friends on social media to play it, and whether they were successful or not, to screenshot your results and email them to me.
This painting has the results of 24 completed puzzles from my custom 7 character word. The puzzles are grouped in fours, painted in narrow vertical stripes, in six sections, two across and three tall.
The fours patterns and colors (not the letters) in each square are painted in the grid of a monoprinted and stitched construction fence pattern, with collaged pieces of an antique crossstitched embroidery. The fabric is stiffened so it appears more like paper than fabric.
Wordle: Painted is mixed media on stiffened fabric that measures 26.75” x 29.25".