Category: ARTWORK

Current portfolio

TEXTILES_00064a_Searching for Inner Code_2021

Searching for Inner Code
MOSAICS Series
fused
13-3/4″w x 20-1/4″h (each piece)
Fused commercial cottons
2021
QUILTS, Tales from the Innervision, 2021, fused, brown, black
 

Statement:
The first work in the Tales from the Innervision quilt series, Searching for Inner Code represents the inner work that every person goes through to discover their own “code”.

View the Tales from the Innervision series statement.

TEXTILES_00063_Ebony Sons Rising_2021

Ebony Sons Rising
PIECED Series
fused
18″w x 24″h
Fused commercial cottons and rayons. Metallic threads.
2021
QUILTS, Pieced Series, 2021, fused, black-white, grey, oranges, burgundy
 

IMAGE_ANGELA-HEATH_Ebony-Sons-Rising

Statement:

Ebony Sons Rising honors our black men, their struggles living in America and their enduring strength and resolve to rise.  This piece follows one of my studio tenets which is –
 
BENEVOLENCE
Webster’s dictionary defines benevolence as “the quality of being well meaning; kindness.”  
I aim to create art primarily to promote awareness and enlightenment of mankind.
 
While my artistic voice has historically been abstract, I realize that stories need to be told, candles need to be held up and lights need to shine.  To that end, I continue to strive in letting my unique light shine to tell the stories that enlighten and uplift mankind.

Details:

PAINTINGS_0123_Desert-Storm_2020

Desert Storm

Life Series
24″ square (w/h) x 7/8″ (d)
2020
PAINTINGS, Life Series, 2020, acrylic on wood, brown, tan, gold, pink, white

Artist Statement

Abstract representation of a restless human spirit. This restlessness continuously fuels the drive of the creative to keep shining in a world of tumultuous skies and torrid lands.

Desert Storm

PAINTINGS_Ocean Water Waste Series_2020

Ocean Water Waste SERIES

Ocean Water Waste No. 1
WATER Series

Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
12″ square

Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020

PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white

Ocean Water Waste No. 2
WATER Series

Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
18″ square

Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020

PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white

Ocean Water Waste No. 3
WATER Series
Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood
12″w x 24″h

Mixed media representing ocean pollution
2020

PAINTINGS, Water Series, 2020, Fiber and paper textured with gesso, acrylics and inks on wood, blue, white

Artist Statement

Ocean Water Waste depicts the huge problem of ocean or marine littering. I have made quite a few water paintings as water and land are my favorite earth elements. These three pieces are beautiful like our real oceans in spite of the litter dumped on them. This reminds me of our human spirit. Even when we are dumped on (esp. in pandemic times), our essence is still exquisitely beautiful.

This series honors our oceans and brings some attention to their degradation by pollution. Unfortunately, their exquisite beauty does not exempt them from reckless and the oftentimes negligent actions of their caretakers. I sincerely believe that our humanity is not only in our treatment of each other but in our treatment of the most precious resources entrusted to us.

PAINTINGS_0112_Rushing Through My Day_2020

Rushing Through My Day
Life Series
18″w by 12″h by 1.5″d
2020
PAINTINGS, NA, 2020, gesso, acrylic, ink textured painting on wood, blue, purple, white

Rushing Through My Day

Artist Statement

Regardless of time and era, women of all ages, life stages and places, experience necessary pressures that find themselves at your feet.  An homage to women as caretakers, daughter, wife, mother and all that entails, “Rushing Through My day” is an abstract representation of a familiar story for most women which is triumphantly rushing through and conquering a busy day.