Weight of Time
A story of how time feels for those left at home during a combat deployment. The gaps between panels represent the passing of time. Warm colors depict combat imagery in the top half of the piece, contrasted by iconic home front images in the bottom half. Time seems to drag out during the beginning, middle, and especially the end of deployments. Time “behaves” differently as you wait, knowing bullets and grenades are flying. Time crawls.
The Weight of Time
18, 6”x 8’ Oil and Chalk Pastels on Canvases
$42,500
Closing the Gaps
A perspective on reintegration. No matter how much or little communication transpires over a deployment, the process of merging two worlds is inescapable. The process of coming back together. Creating a “new normal.” Those home and away have been through battles of different natures. Adapting by necessity. How you proceed in this process can make or break family bonds. The “gaps” represented by the shiny black spots represent missed memories or shared experiences. The everyday joys, the little things. Swirls of excitement when reuniting, the “honeymoon period.” The moment my mind shifts, expecting my soldier to be ready for all the “normal” things he used to do. Then, we remember to allow for new normals. We close the gaps. We find our new rhythm together.
Closing the Gaps
3’x9’ Oil Paint on 12 Canvases
$7,000
Ballistic Neon.
This is the first piece that I put a weapon in. As a result of an art date with my husband, drawing blind contours of his new rifle, art was born. Beauty meets army. Becoming one. Deeply missing my soldier, and wanting to feel close to him, this was painted during a deployment. Little did I know how these canvases and their style would resonate with those who saw it. This work sparked the inspiration for ‘Weight of Time’.
Ballistic Neon
2- 6”x 72” Oil on Canvas
$5,000
The Sun Will Rise Again.
This piece is about finding hope. I painted it during a deployment when communication was infrequent, and the beauty of each sunrise became a daily encouragement. Embedded in the work is an idea my soldier husband shared from the field: Don’t quit at night. When you’re in the field and are cold, wet, and worn down, you tell yourself you’ll quit in the morning. By the time the sun rises, its warmth reminds you that you can make it one more day. This mindset has carried him through his time in the Army and has often carried me through the emotional and physical strain of separations. On the hardest nights, breaking time into small victories — and finding hope in nature and God’s creation — helps me keep going until the sun rises again.
3’x12’ Oil and Cold Wax on Panel
$8,500 or $3,000 for each 3’x4’ or the grouping of 4
Entanglement
The emotional hardships are VERY real and intense. The desire to be a good support to your soldier and yet how you just want them home. The way you have to grow if you want a vibrant life in seasons of separation or togetherness. It is a tangle of feelings. Living your values which push you out of everything comfortable and safe. It is a portrait of resilience formed in the hard places, where love, longing, duty, and personal strength collide.
Entanglement
2, 30”x 30” Oil on Canvas
$1,500
Hopeful Trust
This piece reflects the practice of continuing to believe the best—whether separated by deployment or living daily life together. It speaks to staying healthy in your rhythms, making space for rest, and allowing yourself to be refreshed. The work began simply as “trust,” but hope is what grows over time: in counting the sunrises, in returning to familiar anchors, and in finding the steady, secure place where you belong — and remembering who you belong to.
Hopeful Trust
30”x30” Oil on panel
$1,000
Bids for Connection
Hundreds of hearts flutter along the wall, born from a Valentine’s Day deployment years ago. Wanting to feel close to my husband, I brought my kids into the studio and let them fill large sheets of watercolor paper with color. I flipped their paintings, traced heart after heart, and sent them to friends and family. In the act of sending love outward, something new filled me in return.
Over time these hearts have taken on deeper meaning — symbols of connection, of how my children are woven into this military story, and of the many ways we all reach out to be seen and heard. What began as a simple gesture has become a beautiful ripple of love, carried forward one heart at a time.
Bids for Connection.
Over 400 hearts mixed media installation.
$3,000 for all or $20 each heart, first come first serve to pick heart (no reservations).
Psalm 9:1
3’x3’ Oil on Panel
$1,000
Psalm 9:1
This piece reflects the source behind every story and every strength in my life: my relationship with Jesus. He is my friend, my steady companion, and the lens through which I see everything else. This work stands as a proclamation — “I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart…” — an expression of gratitude that isn’t governed by circumstances or feelings. Even when life looks different from what I would have chosen, this piece affirms the commitment of faith that anchors me.