FOREST SAMPLER

I find a wide variety of mushrooms, mosses, lichen and wild plants on my walks in the woods.  I photograph what I find, and often use those photograph as the basis of my stitched paper artwork.

This piece started when I found an old printer's tray at a local antique mall.  The small compartments reminded me of curio cabinets, and seemed the perfect spaces in which to house "treasures."  Rather than take real things from the woods, I decided to re-create the things I have seen and photographed - out of paper, stitching, wire and thread.

After months of work, a little bit every day, the piece is a good sampler of the things I find and love in the forest.

This piece is SOLD.