Welcome to New Hope in Wood

Studio Owner

 I make one of a kind sculptural lighting with a marriage of materials to enlighten the home; including locally gathered wood, stone, copper, and my own handmade paper shades.

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I create contemporary art quilts with saturated color, texture, playfulness, improvisation and recycled materials. Most works are hand dyed and machine stitched. 

My efforts now center around tickling a funny bone, jogging a memory, or awakening something new in the viewer by illustrating and telling about those things that directly affect and inspire me.

 I apply molten encaustic paint with a sable brush onto Baltic birch, scrape and shape the wax with a palette knife, embed charcoal lines into wax surface, and fuse the layers of wax together with an iron or heat gun.