The images below are collages made from hand-cut and painted papers using watercolor, gouache, pinpricks and minute hole-punched papers. This work is influenced by anthropomorphic fables and early American folk art, incorporating narrative imagery drawn from natural forms, botanical illustration and quilts.

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Vine with Moons and Red Sun, 2011
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache & pinpricks
38 x 30 inches

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Bluebird, 2010
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
39 x 41 inches
in a private collection

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Bluebird, detail, 2010
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
39 x 41 inches
in a private collection

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Willow, 2008
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 22 inches
in a private collection

Two Bird Landing, 2008
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
15 x 30 inches
in a private collection

Peacock, Quail & Owl Branch, 2007
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 2 inches
in the public art collection of the Cleveland Clinic

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White Owl Branch, 2007
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 22 inches
in a private collection

Constellation, 2010
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 41 inches

Constellation, detail, 2010
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 41 inches

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The Vast Open, Variation 2, 2012
paper collage
2 panels, 11 z 12 inches each

Found, 2010
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
16 x 29.5 inches
in a private collection

In the Beginning, 2010 (Jaime Knight & Lena Wolff)
paper collage with iridescent oil stick, varnish, mica and hole punch.
56 x 46 inches
in a private collection

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Ever Expanse, 2011
(Based on “the Solar System” quilt made by Ellen Harding Baker in 1876, which she used as a visual aid to teach children about astronomy. This version is an adaptation featuring an imaginary system with planets different from our own)
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
20 x 24 inches
in a private collection

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Midnight Branch, 2008
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
44 x 30 inches
in a private collection

Midnight Branch, detail, 2008
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
44 x 30 inches
in a private collection

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Night Flowering Tree, 2008
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
36 x 30 inches
in a private collection

Night Mountain, 2007
9 panel paper collage collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
44 x 48 inches
in the public art collection of the Cleveland Clinic

Two Cranes, 2006
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
30 x 22 inches
in a private collection

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Circle Stack, 2012
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
11 x 12 inches
in a private collection

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Another Country, , 2011
(Map of the San Francisco Bay Area depicting pre-Columbian boundaries of marsh lands and extinct or endangered animals who inhabited the landscape including: the salt-marsh harvest mouse, tule elk, grizzly bear, island gray fox, California clapper rail, gray and blue whales, ancient bison, pelican, salmon and Xerxes blue butterfly)
collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache, hole punch & pinpricks
41.5 x 41.5 inches
in the public art collection of Visa