As a collage and mixed media artist, Ann experiments with eclectic materials, combining diverse paints, substrates, found objects, and treasures. She relishes the excavation process of uncovering organic, odd, intriguing, and surprising images. At a young age, her parents instilled the importance of reusing and recycling - an ethic that shapes her work to this day.

It began with a challenge from her husband: incorporate the massive sheets of styrofoam packed with an online bed order. What started as an experiment became a method. Now Ann actively seeks out materials that won't decompose, giving them a second life in her art. There's a deliberate tension in the result - nature imagery married to materials that will outlast us all - and it sits at the heart of her practice. 

Her background informs her work too: dance brings shape and flow; writing offers theme and voice; and art encourages color and texture.

Change Purse: Trial by Fire
6.5" x 11"

Curves and Peaks
8.25" x 10.25"

Learning to Live Off the Land
11" x 14"

Decent Exposure
8.25" x 10.25"

The Growing Space Between
10" diameter

An apple, this place, their fall from grace
8.25" x 10.25"

Legacy
8.25" x 10.25"

Beckoning
8.25" x 10.25"

Mother's Land
12.5" x 12.5"

The Cove
8" x 10"

We've Shed Our Box
10" diameter

Idiom Pie
9" x 13"

Warm Heart
9" x 8"

Kolaj Fest New Orleans - 2023
10" diameter

Tziporah's Tidbits and Bites
11" x 14"

Selfie
8.5" x 12"

Nibbles for Fred and Ginger
11" x 14"

Morro Rock - The Storm
6"  x 6"

Morro Rock - Tear Drop
6" x 6"

Piedras Blancas Lighthouse - White Swirls
6" x 6"

Piedras Blancas Lighthouse - 7960
6" x 6"

Vines - Green and Blue
6" x 6"

Vines  - With a Wave
6" x 6"

Looking I
8" x 8" (in 10" x 10" frame)

Looking II
8" x 8" (in 10" x 10" frame)

Arne
8" x 10"

Chase
8" x 10"

Graham
8" x 10"

Liam
8" x 10"

Zed
10" x 10"

Riley
8" x 10"

Julie 
8" x 10"

Ericson Home
10" x 10"

The Oldest in the World
14" x 13"

Send Me to Sanquhar
5" x 4"
Front and Back postcard

Tear and Rebuild
11" x 14"

The White Lady of Sanquhar Castle
12" x 18"

The Castle Reclaimed
11" x 14"

Fleeing the Castle
11" x 14"

Ode to Black Joan:
A Place that Feels Like Home
11" x 18.5"

A Slow Remembering
9.75" x 19"

Windows into Sanquhar
20" x 20"

In Praise of Bees
7.5" x 18"

Too Little Time
8" x 10"

A Field Guide to Disappearing
8" x 10"

A Soft Day
7" x 5"

Sea Flight
6" x 6"

I'll Be There
6" x 5"

Gratitude
6" x 5"

Vase
4" x 5"

Today is the Day
6" x 5"

Not All Who Wander...
5" x 6"

A Good Friend
4" x 6"

Nature Girl
7" x 5"

New Home
6" x 5"

Garden Walls
5" x 5"

Jazzy
7" x 5"

The designation of U.S. Marine Sanctuary Status for an environmentally sensitive area on the California Central Coast was denied because of a proposed offshore wind farm. This piece was made as a reaction to this devastating omission.

Hung Out to Dry
52" x 10"

Hung Out to Dry Close-Ups

Hung Out to Dry enlarged
Each card - 6" x 10"

Losing Life
30" x 7" x 1"

On the Beach
20" x 15"

Washed Ashore
32" x 18"

This series explores the juxtaposition between natural resources of California's Central Coast
with materials like styrofoam and other human-made found objects.

Holding Back the Sea
8" x 11"

Morro Rock
6" x 5"

Los Osos Fog
7" x 9"

Harbor Boats
5.5" x  6"

Slit Book Done Up
6" x 7"

Water's Edge
5" x 6"

Back Bay at Midnight
8" x 8"

Rock and Kelp
7" x 10"

Back Bay Blues
6" x 8"

Storm
5" x 8"

Thistle
6" x 8"

Aftermath
6" x 7"

Down Below
7" x 5"

The Harbor
6" x 6"

Ocean Life
9" x 14"

Bull Kelp Twins
7" x 9"

Pile Up
5" x 6"

Scaffolding

7" x 5"

Februllage -  28-day Collage Challenge

4" x 6", Mixed Media

Bubble

Postcard

Escape

Warmth

Encounter

Treasure

Popcorn

Ladder

Wrong Way

Tangle

Toxic

Remember

Wolf

Dream

Play

Sculpture

Cardboard

Fake

Shadow

Mythical

River

Crowd

Capitalism

Song

Spill

Favorite

Plaster

Curtain

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