The Clearing
Cast mulberry bark papers onto armatures of lashed branches. Bundled and bent tamarisk branches. Raku and pitfired ceramic vessels containing colored sand from various AZ sites.
The Clearing
Cast mulberry bark papers onto armatures of lashed branches. Bundled and bent tamarisk branches. Raku and pitfired ceramic vessels containing colored sand from various AZ sites.
The Clearing
Cast mulberry bark papers onto armatures of lashed branches. Bundled and bent tamarisk branches. Raku and pitfired ceramic vessels containing colored sand from various AZ sites.
Out of a Storm and Into the Sky
Site specific outdoor sculpture. Bent and lashed tamarisk branches. Pigmented high shrinkage flax paper forms suspended from river cane.
Shelter: A Place of Healing
Installation of high shrinkage flax pulp covering a structure of bent and lashed tamarisk branches. Forest of mesquite branches, leaves, and natural elements.
Shelter: A Place of Healing
detail : low table with arrangement of northern Arizona sandstone and ocean rounded bricks from the coast of New Hampshire.
A Prayer
Site specific outdoor sculpture. Tall flame like forms of pigmented wheat straw and flax paper. Blue “feather” forms of high shrinkage flax pulp clacked and rustled in the wind. Branches, quartz stones found in the desert.
A Prayer
detail
Burial
Site specific outdoor sculpture. Vacuum cast handmade paper panels suspended from tall river cane, bundles of straw, natural elements.
Shrine: The Protections That Bind Us
Dark grey “cave” walls of handmade paper, metallic leafing. Backlighting with theatrical gels. Long corridor of lashed river cane.
Five Elements: A Journey
Cast flax and gampi papers, mixed media fabric banners, depicting fire, water, earth and air. Cast 8’ long boat suspended from the ceiling. Viewers are invited to enter and sit under the boat. Low pitfired clay slab supports four small clay vessels holding water, red sand, charcoal and empty with air. Straw and branches. Theatrical lighting. Collaborative with artist Robert Renfrow.
Five Elements: A Journey
detail of photo transfer and bleach discharge fabric panel. Robert Renfrow
Five Elements: A Journey
Cast flax and gampi papers, mixed media fabric banners, depicting fire, water, earth and air. Cast 8’ long boat suspended from the ceiling. Viewers are invited to enter and sit under the boat. Low pitfired clay slab supports four small clay vessels holding water, red sand, charcoal and empty with air. Straw and branches. Theatrical lighting. Collaborative with artist Robert Renfrow.
Five Elements: A Journey
detail table with vessels
Labyrinth Meditation: Human Conflict
Installation of cast pigmented paper rocks, backlit pulp sprayed panels with large watermarked symbols, and “collaged” photo transfered imagery at the bottom of each panel. Collaborative Sculptural Installation by Catherine Nash, Robert Renfrow and 4 artists from Sweden: Hans Assarsson, Ulf Ling-Vannerus, Daniella Mika, and Margareta Mannervik. 25’ diameter
Labyrinth Meditation: Human Conflict
detail
Labyrinth Meditation: Human Conflict
Artist book installation collaborative with Robert Renfrow and 4 Swedish artists. Photo transferred imagery on accordion format pulp painted sheets of flax handmade paper. Small glass cups of earth samples from over 100 different places on the planet.
Within Skin: A Passage
Environmental installation with large sheets of handmade Japanese paper of Kozo (mulberry bark) and New Zealand flax (8’5” X 5’6”). Cone of Kozo paper, New Mexican white sand, pit fired clay vessel, cottonwood log, pine needles, grapevines and palo verde branches. Theatrical lighting. diameter12’
Within Skin: A Passage
Detail
Under Twilight’s Dream
Front facade of sprayed flax fiber in a gradation of color. Interior: dome shaped structure of sprayed flax. Watermarks drawn in 17’ long wet sheets with a jet stream to create constellations. Commissioned by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. 16’ diameter, 14.5’ ht. at apex.
Under Twilight’s Dream
Front facade of sprayed flax fiber in a gradation of color. Interior: dome shaped structure of sprayed flax. Watermarks drawn in 17’ long wet sheets with a jet stream to create constellations. Commissioned by the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. 16’ diameter, 14.5’ ht. at apex.
Under Twilight’s Dream
detail of interior walls
Pines at Night
Oil and encaustic painting,mixed media, bundled burnt branches. 46”h X 22”w
Fog
Oil and encaustic painting, mixed media 48 1/2”h X 12”w
Fog
detail
Morning
Encaustic painting on wood 12” X 12”
Morning
detail
Two Trees
Encaustic painting on wood 6”X 6”
Still
Encaustic painting on wood 10” X 10”
Hole in the Sky
encaustic & oil sticks w/ raku fired ceramics 35”h X 23”w X 4”d
In the Field
Encaustic painting on wood 10” X 10”
Pond
Encaustic painting on wood 6”X 6”
Bend
Encaustic painting on wood 21 1/2” X 29”
Through Trees
Encaustic painting on wood 18” X 29”
