Carte de Visite
9 × 12″
Oil on Hardboard
2012
Daddy's Girl
7 × 9″
Egg Tempera on Hardboard
2012
Dorothea
5.5 × 8″
Graphite on Hardboard
2012
Grandma's House
8 × 10″
Acrylic on Hardboard
2012
Innocents
8 × 10″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2012
Kipling Went West
8 × 10″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2012
Momma's Boy
7 × 8.5″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2012
Morgana
8 × 10″
Graphite on Hardboard
2012
Prudence
5 × 7″
Graphite Hardboard
2012
Separated at Birth
5 × 7″
Acrylic on Hardboard
2012
She Gave Her Heart
8 × 10″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2012
Artist’s Statement – “Carte de Visite”
Cartes de Visite: Noun, French. 1. Small photographs, traditionally mounted on card stock, for mailing and trading purposes. Used during the Victorian era.
Having a professional career in creating Saturday morning cartoons, I wanted to break from this candy-coated world in order to depict another side of childhood, one that is much darker, haunting or just plain weird — to evoke a time before we child-proofed everything.
By utilizing old photographs of family, friends and found images, this collection portrays the alter ego that resides in all of us — the real inner child which isn’t always what we as adults want it to be.