The Quarry, 1991

 
Too often women are the prey and men know not what they destroy. In The Quarry the whole landscape appears to threaten the woman who protects the defenseless bird, unmindful of her own vulnerability. This dramatic and finely textured painting suggests the intensity, the instinctive intelligence of female nurturing.

Yet the forest can also provide shelter as we see in April in the Woods. The Gothic darkness of the trunks and the cacti-like branches surround the child who seems related to the priestesses in Autumn Ritual. These paintings all evince Erich Neumann's archetype, The Lady of the Plants (The Great Mother). But the women do more than simply fuse with nature. The female consciousness influences the physical forces, suggesting the ecological potency of women's values.

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April in the Woods, 1990

 

Autumn Ritual, 1990

 

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