Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Deep Canvas Framed.

The beginning of a Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Soft Companions

Two figures. One resting, one standing. Both staying. A study in devotion, presence, and the quiet act of choosing one another.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Johnny Cash: You Are My Sunshine)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Standard Canvas Framed.

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Safe Beneath the Flowers

She sees you.

From her place of rest, the mother remains alert, her gaze unwavering. Below her, the fawn softens into the floor, unguarded, free to look away. This is what safety looks like—one holds watch so the other may rest. Surrounded by bloom, the piece speaks to a love that protects without asking.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: John Lennon: Imagine)

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A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love. Keeping company with the animals that sit together in velvet seats.

Companions at Rest

This piece reflects quiet unity and shared presence. Two white sheep sit side by side in mirrored posture upon a pink velvet couch, framed by oversized blooms. There is no hierarchy —only togetherness. In their stillness, the painting speaks to a companionship built on equality and ease.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Gerry Rafferty: Right Down the Line)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Standard Canvas Framed.

The beginning of a Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

She Keeps Watch

Love ... not power...is what protects.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

8"x 10" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Guns N' Roses: Sweet Child of Mine)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Where Love Stands

One figure rises into full view, while the other remains partially hidden, yet close. The contrast suggests a shared understanding—courage and hesitation existing side by side. The piece considers love not as a single posture, but as a space where both can exist, and still remain together.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Tommy James & The Shondells: Crimson and Clover)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Standard Canvas Framed.

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

The Quiet Between Us

Nature reminding us...peace is possible.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Beck: Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Standard Canvas Framed.

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Passing Through

Nature already knows; we are still learning.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

12"x 12" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: The Church: Under the Milky Way Tonight)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

20"x 20" Canvas Size

"Where We Found Ourselves"... within ordinary life.

(Music Choice for Creation: David Bowie: As The World Falls Down)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

11"x 14" Canvas Size

"In Quiet Company"...love remains.

They refuse to blend in, and are all the more striking for it.

(Music Choice for Creation: Depeche Mode: Waiting for the night to Fall)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

A Valentine's series, reflecting on what the holiday meant, defying authority to unite people in love.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture

20"x 20" Canvas Size

"Love Makes Peace"

If nature's rivals can rest together...why can't we.

(Music Choice for Creation: Cat Power: Sea of Love)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

A Memory of Light, Water, and Softness

As human freedoms are remembered, experienced, or taken away, rescued hens from industrial systems become witnesses in the new series.

The hens watch what is happening to humans in their own backyard and are reminded of their losses, when soft ground, water, light, and love were taken from them.

I am holding both hens and humans in my paintings with care and concern. Amy

Painted: January 27, 2026

Narrative Surrealism 

20"x 20" Canvas Size

(Music Choice for Creation: Hania Rani; Ombelico)

Original Artwork, 20" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas, 2026. Narrative Surrealism.

My rescued industrial hen stands above, watching. She comes from a system where power no longer felt what it caused, where her flock lost light, softness, water, and care. 

Below her, a human floats in ease, body relaxed. My hen recognizes that feeling, freedom. She also knows how easily it can be taken and what is at risk when people stop questioning power.

Painted: February 5, 2026

(Music Choice for Creation: Rage Against the Machine; Killing In the Name) Tom Morello performed this song in Minneapolis on January 30, 2026 at First Avenue.

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

The Leap

This piece marks a beginning—a moment of movement toward freedom. A chicken arcs through the air, mid-flight from the diving board, just before entering the pool below. The painting captures the instant where hesitation gives way to trust. It is a moment of celebration—of freedom, and what it feels like to spread its wings.

(Music Choice for Creation: Santana; Smooth)

"The Art of Floating"

Part of the Held by Water Series

A woman in a cheerful yellow one-piece swimsuit reclines on a white-and-yellow floatie, drifting lazily in a turquoise backyard pool. On either side of her, two brown hens enjoy the same summer luxury, each perched on their own floatie, feathers fluffed in the sun. The backyard blooms with green grass and pink flowers, framed by the classic white picket fence.

Artist’s Note:

I painted "The Art of Floating" as a tribute to one of my favorite parts of summer—the return of the inflatables. They turn the backyard into a little vacation, a place where even hens get in on the fun. My chickens adore the seasonal excitement as much as I do, pecking around while floaties bob in the pool.

I've always loved putting inflatables in the backyard. There's something about the sight of them...bright, silly, full of promise (and my hens enjoying all the excitement) that just feels like summer to me. 

This piece captures that lightness, that playfulness, and the gentle art of doing absolutely nothing but enjoying where you are.

(Music Choice for Creation: Manu Chao; Me Gustas Tu)

Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang, 8" x 10" Canvas  Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

Part of the Chapter: Longing to Roam, These are portraits of belonging, freedom, and a life made whole. This garden, this space, this light—it was never ours to take. It was always hers.

"A Life Meant to Wander"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In A Life Meant to Wander, a hen is shown walking through towering stalks of soft white flowers. The perspective is low and intimate, placing the viewer alongside the hen — not above her, but beside her — as she gazes upward, gently parting the blooms as she moves forward. The scene feels both dreamlike and grounded, a quiet world full of possibility, wonder, and quiet longing.

This is a painting about freedom — not just the act of wandering, but the right to do so. It’s about dignity, curiosity, and honoring the natural rhythms of life. It’s a soft yet steady invitation to reimagine the world through the eyes of a creature who was meant to roam, to wonder, and to be seen.

Thank you for walking gently through this world with me – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Tom Petty; Wildflowers)

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"The Balloon Watcher"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In The Balloon Watcher, a chicken perches gracefully on the edge of a white clawfoot tub, its gaze fixed on a red-and-white striped hot air balloon floating—impossibly—within the room. The setting is warm and nostalgic: a pink, brown, and white diamond-tiled floor, white and peach tiles lining the lower half of the wall, and above that, a rust-colored paint that bathes the scene as cozy.

It's a quiet moment of curiosity and wonder unfolding in an unexpected place. The chicken, alert and still, seems to be watching more than a balloon. It’s watching possibility.

While it stands alone in its story, The Balloon Watcher gently echoes themes explored in Stay — the tension between groundedness and letting go, between the known world and the dream of rising beyond it. Here, however, there is no departure, no farewell — only the space to watch, wonder, and perhaps imagine what flight might feel like.

This painting invites reflection on stillness, presence, and the longing we all carry — for more freedom, more beauty, or simply a moment of magic in the ordinary. The balloon may never leave the room, but in watching it, the chicken — and we — are already drifting somewhere new.

Thank you for wondering with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Audrey Hepburn;  Moon River)

Original Artwork, 20" x 20"

Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

"High Hopes"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In High Hopes, two hens ride side by side in a small, brown, wicker hot air balloon basket — so full they’re nearly spilling out. Above them rises a whimsically surreal balloon in shades of blue, rust, and gold, patterned with green diamonds and floating upward into a wide blue sky. The scene is lighthearted and dreamlike, a celebration of joy and the unexpected.

This piece radiates optimism and freedom. It captures the kind of moment when anything feels possible — a launch into new heights, whether literal or emotional.

High Hopes is about believing in more. It's about the unlikely dreamers — like two plump hens taking flight — and the idea that no matter where we start, we all deserve the chance to rise. It’s a playful nod to freedom, to friendship, and to lifting each other up, even when the basket is small and the journey uncertain.

It’s a reminder that joy is often found in the unexpected — and sometimes, the best days start with a little lift.

Thank you for soaring with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: American Authors; Best Day of My Life)

"The Dappled Chick"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" , Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

In The Dappled Chick, a small yellow chick stands alone on a green and white checkered floor that fades and blurs as it stretches into the distance. The floor feels both grounded and dreamlike — a place where reality begins to slip into something more surreal. The chick itself is strikingly lifelike, with delicate features and soft down, but what draws the eye is the unexpected: a patch of white with green spots across its back and wing area. It’s as if part of its shell still clings to it — or as if something more mysterious has marked it as different.

This piece invites quiet reflection. It’s a tender meditation on becoming — that in-between space where innocence meets individuality. The dappled markings suggest something still forming, still unfolding — a chick not just newly hatched, but newly seen.

The Dappled Chick speaks to the beauty of uniqueness, of carrying traces of where we’ve been while stepping into who we are becoming. It’s about the marks — physical, emotional, symbolic — that we wear as we emerge into the world, and how those differences make us all the more wondrous.

Thank you for stepping into this quiet moment of wonder with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: The Temper Trap; Sweet Disposition)

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The painting is finished with a protective varnish and comes wired, ready to hang.

Part of my studio collection

"Lady Hens at the Quiet Shore"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In "Lady Hens at the Quiet Shore," two hen-women — twin figures with statuesque faces and golden hair crowned by red combs — stand facing each other on the edge of a beach. With their purple feathered bodies and mirrored stance, they seem suspended in a moment of silent understanding. 

This painting lives in the space between surreal and sacred — a quiet conversation between sisters, soulmates, or reflections of the self. The shoreline becomes a threshold — between land and water, solitude and connection, past and present.

"Lady Hens at the Quiet Shore" invites us to consider the bonds we carry and the strange, beautiful ways we find ourselves reflected in others. 

Thank you for standing at the shoreline with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Nick Drake; Northern Sky)

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"The Dappled Hen"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In The Dappled Hen, a cream and brown hen stands confidently against a light blue background, her body adorned with bold, unexpected blue spots that stretch across her chest and cover her wing area. A few soft white spots trail toward her tail, fading like echoes of movement or memory. She stands grounded on a rich brown floor, poised and unbothered — fully herself.

This surreal, striking hen seems to carry her story on her feathers. The blue spots feel symbolic — like markings of experience, identity, and perhaps even transformation. She’s both ordinary and extraordinary, familiar and fantastical.

The Dappled Hen celebrates difference — the way we wear our history, our individuality, and our mystery. It’s a visual declaration that beauty doesn't lie in sameness, but in what sets us apart.

There’s something unapologetic in her stance, something quietly powerful. She doesn’t ask to be explained — she simply is.

Thank you for seeing the extraordinary in the everyday – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Natasha Bedingfield; Unwritten)

Original Artwork, 20" x 24" Canvas Size. (Black Frame 21.5" x 25.5" Deep 1.5") Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 (Price Includes Sales Tax)— Available

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"Soaring Dreams"

In "Soaring Dreams," my three backyard hens are captured mid-air, lifted above the trampoline below. While chickens aren’t known for their flight, there’s something magical about the way they flutter just enough to feel like they’re soaring — even if only for a brief moment. This painting captures that spirit of hopeful ambition, a reflection of how small leaps can still feel like big victories.

The trampoline, often a symbol of carefree childhood memories, becomes a stage for these dreamers — a place where even my grounded little hens can imagine themselves taking flight. The piece is a playful reminder that dreaming sometimes just needs a good bounce and a little belief.

Soaring Dreams blends the joy I find in my chickens with the universal desire to rise above limitations. It’s a celebration of possibility — of finding flight in places you least expect.

Thank you for sharing in this dream – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; Learning to Fly)

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Part of the "Chicken Stories" collection. Acrylic on canvas. 8" x 10" canvas size.

2025

Where She Belongs

This piece returns the hen to what has always been hers: open air, soft earth, and the freedom to move without restraint. To see from her vantage is to recognize not only where she is, but where she belongs.

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"Reaching for the Sun"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In Reaching for the Sun, a hen moves quietly through a garden as she gazes upward toward a golden sunflower towering above her. Around her, more sunflowers rise from the earth, swaying gently beneath a blue-green sky. There’s a sense of following one’s nature, a deep yearning for freedom, and a belief in something beyond the boundaries we place on the world.

Reaching for the Sun continues the quiet narrative of honoring the lives of chickens — their intelligence, their curiosity, their right to wander through gardens instead of cages. It’s a visual meditation on presence, peace, and the beauty that unfolds when creatures are allowed to live as they were meant to: with dignity, sunlight, and room to grow.

Thank you for seeing this with me – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Cat Stevens; The Wind

Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang. 8" x 10" Canvas Size. Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

"Dance or Break Free"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In Dance or Break Free, a small yellow chick stands on a cream-colored floor, one foot lifted mid-step, suspended by strings. The chick is posed, a marionette — controlled by an unseen force. A moment between being held and being free.

This piece is a quiet protest — a reflection on the treatment of chickens in industrial farming, where their natural instincts are restricted, and their stories are silenced.

This painting is a plea for empathy, a reminder that these creatures were made to live, explore, and feel.

Thank you for seeing the story behind the strings – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Brandi Carlile; The Story)

4" x 4" Acrylic on a Wooden Round. Hand-painted. $29

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"Strings of Industry"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

In Strings of Industry, the jester returns — no longer dangling, no longer grinning. Now, he sits alone on a stool, surrounded by silence. His painted smile has faded into something far more human: shock, fear, and dawning awareness. His wide eyes stare into nothing, as if haunted by the weight of realization.

Thick strings are still attached to every part of him — his arms, shoulders, spine — evidence of the control that once moved him, or perhaps still does. The room is steeped in eerie stillness. The floor beneath him is a strange, unsettling pink, casting long, distorted shadows. Behind him, a green wood-paneled wall, streaked with age.

Strings of Industry is the reckoning. The marionette, once a figure of blind performance, is now forced to sit with the consequences. It’s no longer just about the manipulation of animals, but the deeper moral cost of an entire system — one driven by greed, wealth, and denial.

This painting asks: When the show is over and the strings are laid bare, what remains? What have we done in the name of convenience, profit, and power? Who have we silenced, caged, and broken — and at what cost?

Both haunting and necessary, Strings of Industry holds a mirror up to those who pull the strings... and invites them to look.

(Music Choice for Creation: The Cure; Lullaby)

Artwork is available at:

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5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Acrylic on canvas. 2025

Canvas Size: 16" x 20"

"Chicken Stories Tell Alice" Part of the "Chicken Stories" collection

As night falls, the hens slip softly into the pages of familiar tales, quiet messengers from a world that silences more than it hears.

They carry with them the ache of confinement, a memory that doesn't fade, and a deep longing for freedom.They speak for those still hidden in the shadows of industry. One hen, heavy with remembering the nightmare, tells Alice what the others cannot. A quiet messenger from a world that silences more than it hears.

Still, she dreams of sunlight, of soft earth, of dignity denied to so many.

In this dreamlike hour, where story and truth blur, she finds the courage to speak. Here, under starlight, fiction bends and truth finds its way in.

(Music Choice for Creation: Joanna Newsome; Sadie)

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Canvas , Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

Part of the Chapter: Longing to Roam, These are portraits of belonging, freedom, and a life made whole. This garden, this space, this light—it was never ours to take. It was always hers.

"Among Giants"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In Among Giants, we follow a hen who makes her way through a towering garden of lupines. The tall spires of purple rise above her like gentle giants, creating a path that feels both sacred and wild. The viewer is not looking down on her, but walking with her — a quiet companion as she moves through her world with purpose and grace.

This is a painting about freedom — the kind that is soft, natural, and deeply deserved.

Among Giants continues the story of giving voice to the voiceless — a gentle protest in favor of a better life for our chickens. It’s a reminder that they, too, belong among beauty and light, not behind wire or in shadows. The lupines, strong yet delicate, stand as both protectors and witnesses, honoring her quiet right to roam.

Thank you for walking among the wildflowers with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Tom Petty; Wildflowers)

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Original Artwork, 20" x 24" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 (Sales Tax Included)

The painting is finished with a protective varnish and comes wired, ready to hang.

"Stay" Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In "Stay," three backyard hens tell a quiet story of connection and letting go. One hen drifts away in a hot air balloon, while another stands on a tower of boxes, reaching desperately to follow. The third remains grounded, watching longingly from below.

This piece reflects the ache of wanting to hold on — to keep those we love close — even when they must move beyond us. It's a tender reminder of the bonds we share, the heartbreak of goodbyes, and the quiet hope that love will always linger, no matter the distance.

Thank you for sharing in this memory – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Mazzy Star; Fade Into You)

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"Lady Hens Enjoying the View"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In "Lady Hens Enjoying the View," two serene hen-women — twin figures with statuesque faces, soft pastel yellow hair, and golden wings — stand together on a wide, flat rock at the water’s edge. Their pale, almost ghostly forms face outward in quiet unison, gazing across the northern Minnesota shoreline. Behind them rise the iconic cliffs, red-brown and majestic, crowned with pines. Rocks jut gently from the lake, creating a rhythm of stillness and strength in the open water.

This piece is a meditation on presence — the quiet kind that comes with shared experience and reverence for nature. The two figures, identical yet individual, embody companionship without conversation. 

"Lady Hens Enjoying the View" is about pausing to witness the beauty around us, to stand still in a fleeting world. It’s about the comfort of being alongside someone who sees what you see, feels what you feel, without needing to explain a thing. A moment of unity, a breath of peace, a shared gaze over the water — sometimes, that’s everything.

Thank you for sharing in this stillness with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Johann Debussy: Clair De Lune)

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Original Artwork, 28" x 22" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 (Price Includes  Sales Tax)— Available

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"Three Dreamers Adrift"

In "Three Dreamers Adrift," my three backyard hens float peacefully on a bed that soars above the lake. Suspended between reality and imagination, the piece reflects the quiet magic of drifting off to sleep — when the ordinary becomes extraordinary. Inspired by bedtime stories and the gentle rhythm of the water near home. This painting reflects the quiet comfort of dreams — a place to drift beyond the familiar.

With gratitude for your curiosity – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Enya; Orinoco Flow)

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Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection: in the Longing to Roam Chapter

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"A Longing for Open Fields"

In A Longing for Open Fields, a curious hen stretches its long neck toward a vibrant coneflower, its gaze full of wonder and intent. Set within a lush garden, the painting captures a moment of quiet curiosity — a reminder of the simple joys chickens experience when given the freedom to explore.

This piece honors the life of a chicken — free, vibrant, and valued. It’s a celebration of the local farmers who nurture their flocks with care, offering their birds a life filled with open spaces and natural beauty.

Thank you for sharing in this reflection – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Neil Young; Old Man)

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Part of the Chicken Stories collection.

"I Was Never Your Puppet"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In I Was Never Your Puppet, a yellow chick stands firmly on both feet — free, grounded, and no longer controlled. Before it, a jester marionette dangles awkwardly, one foot lifted midair, its strings still taut, its wooden crossbar hovering above. The floor is the same cream surface, the backdrop the same muted pea green as Dance or Break Free, creating a clear visual and emotional continuation.

The chick, once manipulated, now stands free — facing the marionette not with fear, but with quiet strength. At last, it is grounded, no longer bound by strings, while the jester remains suspended — controlled and powerless — caught in the very position where the chick was once placed. It’s a striking reversal of power, a moment of reckoning. The jester, still dangling by its strings, wears a fixed, clown-like smile — a hollow expression that feels almost mocking, or perhaps unaware of its own captivity. It’s a chilling image: the system that once held control now exposed, suspended, and absurd. The chick is no longer the puppet — it’s the witness. This is not just a reversal of power, but a quiet confrontation with the ignorance or denial that often hides behind a painted grin.

In this piece, the marionette jester symbolizes the system itself: the industrial chicken industry pulling the strings and the ones caught in its grasp, dancing to the demands of mass production. 

I Was Never Your Puppet is a declaration — a painting about refusing to be manipulated, and about revealing the quiet systems that control both animal and human lives. The chick, once a symbol of vulnerability, now stands as a voice of truth.

Thank you for seeing beneath the strings – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Judy Collins; Send in the Clowns)

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Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

"Lake Day Ladies"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In Lake Day Ladies, two chickens drift peacefully on their floaties, bobbing along the lake beneath the iconic, pine-covered cliffs of Minnesota’s North Shore. Painted from joy, this playful escape lets the hens bask in sunlight and serenity. The piece offers them a place of dignity, delight, and daydream.

Grateful to share this painting with you — Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: The Lovin' Spoonful; Daydream)

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Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang, 12" x 12" Canvas  Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

The Room That Waited

 Waiting rooms are hard. The stillness, the uncertainty, too much time to think in that square space. So I painted a way out.

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: The Cure; Burn)

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Original Artwork, 12" x 12" Framed and Ready to Hang, Acrylic on Standard Canvas, 2025 

No One Said Goose

The ache of not being picked. And then you wait, thinking this time might be different. And then it's not. And you sit there in the circle, pretending it didn't hurt.

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Johann Johannsson; Orphee, By the Roes, and by the Hinds of the Field)

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"Weight of the World"

Part of the Nature of Us Collection

Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

"In the Orchard of Her Mind"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

"In the Orchard of Her Mind," each apple grows from her quiet heaviness and the strength of her vulnerability. This piece acknowledges that we all carry something, even when it's not in full view.

Thank you for seeing this piece - Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Rachel Sermanni; Everything Changes)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions:8” x 10” 

"Generation Ears"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Music Choice for Creation: Melanie Martinez; Dollhouse)

In this piece I am exploring an odd, modern phenomenon, the rise of wearable animal ears across every age, generation, and occasion. I though about the filter apps too, the ones that gave us ears.

But somewhere in there, I had to ask myself...in wearing them, did I become what industry wanted me to be.

Artwork is available at:

Spirit of the Lake Community Arts (SOLCA)

5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

"Stillness and Stars"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

A portrait of what's seen and what's unseen. Her surface is visible. But the night sky and stars show her soul.

(Music Choice for Creation: Simon & Garfunkel; Scarborough Fair)

Artwork is available at:

Spirit of the Lake Community Arts (SOLCA)

5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang, 8" x 10"  Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

Somebody Who Embodies Gentleness in a Changing World

Together, they form a portrait not of power, but of restraint—of choosing softness in a world that often moves otherwise. This piece reflects the idea that gentleness is not something fragile, but something held deliberately. It asks what it means to care and to protect what is delicate—especially as the world continues to change.

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Harry Nilsson; Without You)

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Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang, 8" x 10"  Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

"The Influencer Age"

 A time of polished surfaces and constant visibility. Shiny on the outside, crumbling on the inside.

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: The Offspring; Self Esteem)

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Part of the "Portraits From Another Room" collection— Canvas Size: 8"x 10"

"She Held the Unseen"

I woke up this morning and knew exactly what I wanted to paint... a chicken soul, made of the night sky.

(Musical Selection for creation: Peter Gabriel; In Your Eyes)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 12” x 12” Framed Dimensions: 13” x 13," Black Frame

"Busy Was Her Quiet"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

"Busy Was Her Quiet" shows the constant activity inside her mind. The bees are the mind-noise...memories, hopes, worries, looping thoughts.

Anxiety is not always loud. Sometimes, it's polite.

(Music Choice for Creation: Agnes Obel; Familiar and also Morphine; A Head With Wings)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” Framed 

"The Nest She Wore"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

In The Nest She Wore, a woman sits with quiet elegance, her piercing green eyes echoing the leaves that bloom across the pink and yellow floral wallpaper behind her. Woven delicately into her hair is a bird’s nest — a symbol of home, nurture, and quiet strength — while a red cardinal perches gently on her shoulder, as if whispering something only she can hear.

Dressed in shades of red and pink that mirror the warmth of the wallpaper, she carries an air of timeless grace — classic, aged, and touched by something wistful. This piece explores the weight and beauty of caretaking, the way we carry our nests — our responsibilities, our tenderness, our hopes — often without speaking a word of it.

The Nest She Wore is a visual poem about memory, connection, and the beautiful tangle of what we carry in our minds and hearts.

Thank you for stepping into this story – Amy

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Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

Joy Needs No Audience

The piece reflects a kind of happiness that is self-held—unseen, unmeasured, and fully alive. It suggests that joy does not need to be witnessed to be real; it simply needs to be felt.

Two Music Choices for Creation: Mohammed Rafi; Jaan Pehechaan Ho and Echosmith; Cool Kids)

Part of the  Artwork, 8" x 10" Canvas Size. (the Frame 9" x 11"  Deep 1.5") Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

"Holding Love Close"

Part of Portraits From Another Room Collection

In Holding Love Close, a woman cradles her hen tenderly against her chest, her gaze soft and affectionate. Set against a backdrop of decorative wallpaper, the piece evokes a sense of nostalgia — a quiet moment frozen in time.

This painting reflects the deep bond we form with the animals we care for — the quiet comfort, the unwavering affection, and the way they become part of our hearts and homes. With its retro charm and tender warmth, Holding Love Close is a tribute to those gentle connections that remind us love can come with feathers.

Thank you for sharing in this moment – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Doris Day; Dream a Little Dream)

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Artwork is available at:

Spirit of the Lake Community Arts (SOLCA)

5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

In "The Way She Looks at Love," a woman cradles a red hen close to her heart. Her gaze is soft, steady—full of affection. This painting is a quiet reminder that love is meant to be felt, held close, and seen. It speaks to the beauty of tenderness, showing softness is not weakness, and that vulnerability isn’t a flaw, but a form of courage.

Thank you for being here — Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Ruelle; The Other Side)

Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang. Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Available. Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

The painting is finished with a protective varnish and comes wired, ready to hang.

"My Darling Red"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

In "My Darling Red", a woman in a soft teal dress stands against a teal-toned decorative wallpaper. Cradled closely to her chest is a red-brown hen, held in a protective pose. Her gaze drifts off the canvas — questioning, as if guarding her beloved bird from something unseen.

This painting is a quiet reflection on care and the emotional bond we form with the creatures we love. The woman’s posture is one of strength — a nurturer, unafraid to stand between what she loves and whatever might threaten it.

"My Darling Red" honors that fierce kind of love — the kind that shelters, defends, and doesn’t ask for permission to feel deeply. It's a tribute to the quiet guardianship we offer to those in our care and the strength found in tenderness.

Thank you for sharing in this moment – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Kate Bush; This Woman's Work)

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Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

"Shelf Life"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

"Shelf Life" is a metaphor for the way people might misunderstand us...or how we slowly start to misunderstand ourselves, and the quiet habit of tucking parts of ourselves away.

Thank you for seeing this piece - Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Tori Amos; Winter)

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 — Framed.  Framed Dimensions: 13.5” x 15.5"

(Solid Wood Composition Hand-Leafed Museum-Quality Closed-Corner Gold Frame)

She Belonged to the Pines

Part of the "Portraits From Another Room" Collection

In this portrait, a woman is poised in a high-collared lace dress adorned with strings of pearls that cascade softly down her chest. A chickadee, small and watchful, perches gently on her shoulder while antlers rise from her crown-like, reaching skyward. 

In "She Belonged to the Pines," she is living in two worlds—one civilized, the other feral. This painting is a reflection of what we often carry within us: a quiet longing for the wild, a return to something more instinctual.

Thank you for pausing with me. Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Aurora; Running with the Wolves)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions:8” x 10” 

"A Woman Remembering"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Music Choice for Creation: Evanescence; My Immortal)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

What Keeps You Safe

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

In my paintings, the lemon ladies can turn worry into fruit.

Thank you for seeing this piece - Amy

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portriature.

(Music Choice for Creation: Sade; By Your Side)

"She Carried More Than She Knew"

Part of the "Portraits from Another Room" collection. Acrylic on canvas. 20" x 16"

2025

A quiet portrait of a woman—holding a chicken in one hand, two eggs in the other, while balancing an apple and grapes atop her head. This piece is a convergence of three collections: a nod to The Nature of Us with its symbolic fruit, Chicken Stories with its tender grasp of the hen and eggs, and Portraits From Another Room with its backdrop.

The woman, a visual metaphor for the emotional load one carries. Seen and unseen, held and balanced, offered and protected.

Music Choice for Creation: Annie Lennox; Why

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4" x 4" Acrylic on a Wooden Round

Sealed with a protective varnish and comes with thread, ready to hang

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Original Artwork, Painting Sketch, 2026, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” 

"Rabbits Listen"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: The Verve; Bitter Sweet)

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Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2026 Painting Sketch: 8” x 10” 

"He's With Me"

Portraits from Another Room Collection 

Thank you for seeing this piece - Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Max Richter Orchestra; On the Nature of Daylight)

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Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

"The Woman Who Swallowed a Lemon Seed"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

In The Woman Who Swallowed a Lemon Seed, a woman with short auburn-red hair, vivid green eyes, and pearl earrings gazes thoughtfully off the canvas. She appears composed — yet something unusual blooms just above her: a crown of bright yellow lemons and leafy vines sprouting from her hair. A small green and yellow bird perches gently on her shoulder, as if keeping watch over her quiet transformation. Behind her, wallpaper patterned with leaves and lemons echoes the surreal, botanical wonder of her crown.

This piece grew from a question about what might happen if someone swallowed a lemon seed. From there, it grew into an image that took root.

The Woman Who Swallowed a Lemon Seed is  a visual tale of transformation, where everyday moments give way to the surreal, and where the seeds of thought can turn into something far more alive than we ever imagined.

Thank you for wondering with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Frances; Grow)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions:12” x 12” 

Gray Frame

"A Quiet Awakening"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Original Artwork, 12" x 12" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025 

Part of the Portraits From Another Room collection.

"The Woman Who Loved Cranes"

This painting is a tribute to believing in something fragile without knowing what will come.

The paper crane, a symbol of hope, healing, and wishes. 

(Music Choice for Creation: Enya; Only Time)

Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

"Hen Baby"

To love a hen... protecting what cannot protect itself.

Narrative Surrealism 

12"x 12" Canvas Size

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"Our Pup and Hen"

Today I painted a portrait of our pup...and of course, she had to be part of "Chicken Stories." It only felt right. She lives it daily.

(Music Choice for Creation: Harry Belafonte: Jump in the Line)

Artwork is available at:

Spirit of the Lake Community Arts (SOLCA)

5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Original Artwork, Framed. 20" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

"Rise of the Local Roost"

Part of the Chicken Stories Collection

In "Rise of the Local Roost," a chicken floats gracefully through a bright blue sky, lifted by a bundle of egg-shaped balloons. Lighthearted and surreal, the piece carries both whimsy and weight — a gentle nudge to look upward, and inward, at the choices we make.

At a time when the cost of eggs is climbing and conversations about food sources grow louder, this painting honors the farmers who care deeply for their flocks.

Rise of the Local Roost is both a call and a  reminder to support local, to seek out the stories behind our food, and to rise alongside those who raise their animals with love.

Thank you for lifting this story with me – Amy

Painted: March 14, 2025

(Music Choice for Creation: Rosemary Clooney; Mambo Italiano)

Artwork is available at:

Spirit of the Lake Community Arts (SOLCA)

5401 E Superior Street, Duluth, M.N.

Original Artwork, Framed and Ready to Hang, 16" x 20" Acrylic on Standard Canvas, 2025 

I Just Want to Matter to You

A cow stands within the room, facing the viewer, while a woman turns toward him. Their shared markings bind them to the space and to each other. The work reflects a closeness once held between human and animal—now made distant through industry—and asks what it means to be seen, known, and valued.

Thank you for seeing this – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Incubus; Wish You Were Here)

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Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025,  Framed 

Cradled By the Lake

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Seen from above, a woman floats gently in an inner tube on the open surface of Lake Superior. The water holds her—steady, quiet, without demand. In her hands, she lifts an apple, her symbol of worry, now gathered and made visible. She smiles, not because everything is resolved, but because she is no longer resisting what she carries.

The lake supports, surrounds, and steadies her, offering a kind of stillness that allows her to hold her worry differently. The apple is no longer something hidden or heavy, but something understood.

Cradled by the Lake reflects a moment of surrender and trust—the recognition that we can be held, even while carrying what weighs on us. It suggests that peace is not the absence of worry, but the ability to rest within it, supported by something larger than ourselves.

Music Choice for Creation: Post Malone; Take What You Want)

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Original Artwork. Framed. Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 16” x 20” 

"Company Before Dawn"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

This was painted when the cougar moved through Duluth in December 2025, and schools closed.

The cougar a witness to an earlier time, when cows were companions, before industrialized farming created the distance that seperated us from animals who one lived beside us.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture.

(Music Choice for Creation: Tenacious D; Wicked Games)

Original Artwork, Acrylic on Canvas, 2025, Canvas Dimensions: 8” x 10” Framed 

"She Never Looked Back"

Inspired by the cougar that was in town this week. (Dec 7, 2025/Duluth MN)

...reflection... I put my brushes down for decades. I've learned art doesn't leave. It waits for you...even in midlife, or after...it returns. I imagine that's true for any calling we carry – Amy

Music Choice for Creation: Chris Isaak; Wicked Game)

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Original Artwork. Unframed. Acrylic on Canvas, 2026, Canvas Dimensions: 12” x 12” 

No More Masquerade

Painted January 23, 2026, during the ICE invasion of Minnesota.

Narrative Surrealism and Symbolic Portraiture.

(Music Choice for Creation: Buffalo Springfield; For What It's Worth)

"The Owl Keeper"

Part of the Portraits from Another Room Collection

Original Artwork, 8" x 10" Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

In The Owl Keeper, a woman in a rust-colored dress adorned with pearl earrings and a matching necklace stands poised and timeless. Her black hair is swept into a classic updo, and her expression is calm yet commanding as she gazes directly at the viewer. Perched delicately on her finger is an owl, content and serene, looking off into the distance. Behind her, rust and peach-toned floral wallpaper softly echoes the hues of her dress, blending her into the space as if she belongs wholly to it.

This painting was inspired by the extraordinary winter irruption of 2025, when Duluth became a haven for owls migrating south from Canada in search of food. Boreal owls — rarely seen and even more rarely photographed — arrived in an unexpected and remarkable influx, joined by the majestic great gray owls. These rare visitors, driven by a shortage of their primary food source, the vole, offered a haunting, beautiful presence across the snowy landscape.

The Owl Keeper captures that moment in time, blending reverence for nature with the quiet strength of the feminine spirit. The owl, perched with trust, becomes a symbol of mystery, wisdom, and resilience — and the woman, its keeper, a quiet guardian of fleeting, wild beauty.

Thank you for honoring this rare moment with me – Amy

(Music Choice for Creation: Billie Holiday; I'll Be Seeing You)

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