Purple Pansies, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper – framed size 27H x 33W” white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Prickly Pear Cactus (Sedona, AZ), 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper – 27H x 33W” framed, won Honorable Mention in Fusion Art’s 10th Annual Leaves and Petals Exhibition and competition.

Prickly Pear Cactus is native to the Americas including Mexico, an important food source for desert animals and for humans, but now threatened to extinction by a cactus moth that has no known natural predators in the US. In 2021, a wasp was exported from South America to Texas to help control the spread of moth devastation, with some success.
 

Haida Design Shoreline Carving, Campbell River BC, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. There are so many beautiful sculptures along the shore here, but no information online about this wood carving. Every summer Campbell River hosts a chainsaw carving competition, so I assume this is one of the pieces created during one of those events.

Foo Dogs, Zhejiang, China, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. These Chinese lion dogs or guardian lions, also known as shishi, are an integral part of Chinese art, architecture and folklore. Pairs are placed by the front doorway as symbols of harmony, protection and power, and in Feng Shui philosophy they represent yin and yang – male and female. The male holds a ball under its paw and the female holds a cub.

Won Best in Show and Featured Artist as part of the award, in J. Mane Gallery’s Elements of Nature 2024 with Moody Weather, Oregon Coast, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches.

Honorable Mention in Teravarna’s 8th “Color” International Juried Art Competition:

Sumac, Fairy Lake BC, 12H x 16W inches oil pastels on paper, 16 x 20 ” with white mat

Herb Pots, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper, 27H x 33W inches framed size

Orange Milkweed, Kentucky 15 x 22 inches watercolors on paper, sold

Temple of Horus – Edfu Temple, Egypt – Falcon, Ruler of Skies and deity of the pharaohs, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper

Seasonal Storm, 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper. 27H x 33W inches framed size.

Oystercatchers, (2020), 18H x 24W inches watercolors on paper and Mallards at Rood Bridge Park pond, Hillsboro OR (drawn and initially posted on April 30th), 18H x 24W inches soft pastels on paper.

Framed sizes are 27H x 33W inches with white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.

Both in the exhibition, ‘Flowing and Flying’, at d’Art Center gallery in Norfolk, VA August 1 – 31st. (Aug. 29 note: Oystercatchers sold!)

Hydrangeas, 18H x 24W soft pastels on watercolor paper. Framed size 27H x 33W inches, white mat and white wood frame with crackle finish.