These paintings explore the notion that when we see with “love eyes” our relationship with the world, and our behavior, changes. (Joanna Macy, Laura Sewell, David Abrams)

Domina was painted in response to a road trip in northern Scotland. We traveled form Findhorn to Erraid and Iona in search of a stained class window depicting a pregnant Mary Magdalene, which we found in a tiny chapel on the Isle of Mull. This painting became a tribute to the Goddess tradition.

500 Million Monarch Rise Again: In the winter of 2001-2 an estimated 500 million monarchs died in Central America due to a cold snap. At the time I completed an installation of 24 drawings (see Installations: Limina, painted prayers for threshold times) as an elegy to the monarch butterfly and my general concern for the collapse of habitats and species due to global climate change.

This painting was completed in the summer of 2007 after reading that the monarch population had returned in full and with more resilience to cold snaps! The speed of their recovery is still a mystery to scientists. This painting is an expression of my delight as we open to what we might learn form our non-human companions.

Natural Grace exhibition catalog essay by Adrian Ivakhiv, PhD. “Sustainable Vision, or the Art of Seeing Gracefully.”