This project highlights some of my work in helping preserve habitats for Chimney Swifts and Solitary Bees;

Baltimore has one of the biggest Chimney Swift migrations on the East Coast. Here in Hampden we had to fight tooth and nail to ensure the Book Bindery Building on Elm St. was designated Historic thus preserving it's 70ft chimney. This chimney serves as a nightly resting place for thousands of Chimney swifts during their spring and summer migration to South America.      

My work with solitary bees has involved designing and installing numerous solitary bee houses in parks and private gardens in Baltimore along with installing Pollinator/wildlife gardens throughout Maryland that provide food and habitat for bees, butterflies, clearwing moths and other pollinators. In addition to habitat and food for birds.                          

The watercolors presented in this project are all recent ( 2019-2023) with some inspired by my interest in mutation.  My recent work,  as a response to the  Covid 19 pandemic, has produced a series of works inspired by nature but often featuring strange twists or mutations. Some of these drawings and paintings were started after I had a medical procedure to insert a small tube in my body where a large aneurysm had developed.

These works are part of the Art on the Trail series of installations  at Lake Roland Park, Baltimore and  Nature Art in the Park work  in Leakin Park, Baltimore (2014 to Present). They include my Pollinator Hexagon series of installations. In addition to other work installed in the US.
https://chesapeakebaymagazine.com/art-on-the-waterfront-brings-inspired-outdoor-art-to-south-baltimore/

These are a selection of mail art cards (mainly pencil and watercolor) that in some cases have travelled great distances.  I sometimes  used mail art as a form of protest, as dealing with a physical card is more work than dealing with emails and I believe more effective. I have always been facinated with mail art and have been sending small  sketches and drawings to friends and fellow artists throughout the years.  Sometimes the postal stamps add an official feel to the artwork (as in the case of mailing cards from the Postal Museum in DC), thus changing the piece dramatically.