Happy New Year!

With the "Expand" crew at the installation of our work at the Lone Tree Arts Center in December.

First Friday in October 2015 at Paper Trails exhibition, Spark Gallery, Denver.

Just getting settled in new studio space... every day I take more paper ingredients down there!

"Western," collage enlarged and reproduced for lobby installation at 250 Columbine in Denver.

Somehow the last half of 2015 has escaped me... I actually haven't quite regained my sense of work/life balance (if there is such a thing!) since the death of my Mom in May. I'm getting there though... and aside from that loss, so very many good things came to pass this year that I've not taken the time to post here.            So a quick recap is in order!

Accomplishments... woohoo!

—Completed a 11-piece series of nature/landscape-inspired collages for installation at a hospital in Nebraska.

—Made a large composed landscape for a lobby installation where an image of the original was enlarged and then printed onto 32 separate foot-square wood panels, then hung in a grid.

—Had a very successful solo show that featured my composed landscape series, titled "Paper Trails," at Spark Gallery.

—Showed with my To Expand artist friends in "Here to There" at aBuzz Gallery this summer and in "Running Dialogue," currently on view at the Lone Tree Arts Center.

—Completed my two year term as Co-Director of Spark Gallery. I currently have a large new collage on view there in the Annual Members' Show, through January 9.

—Rented a studio in Denver's Art District on Santa Fe. Opened the doors to celebrate First Friday in November, just a few days after signing the lease. I now have S P A C E to get some perspective on my work!

—Took beginning mandolin lessons, cleared and rented my Mom's condo... and continued my half-time design practice!

Guess it's no wonder I haven't posted here in a while. As 2016 approaches, I'm hugely grateful for your interest in, and support of, my work this year and look forward to new artful adventures! Stay tuned. Happy New Year!

Collages at Robert Anderson Gallery + Daily Mail Catalog

The Daily Mail catalog in its native habitat, amongst the wild paper debris!

Some of the collages from my Daily Mail series are included in an exhibition of the Denver Collage Club at the Robert Anderson Gallery through May 30, 2015. The show features the work of more than 20 collagists and was recently written about in L'Oeil, an online photography journal, as well as Kolaj magazine. The gallery is located at 2426 East Third Avenue, Denver, Colorado. Hours are 11am-6pm Thursdays through Saturdays.

I've recently (finally!) organized all 75 images from the original series into a catalog, now available for purchase online. Each collage is reproduced at almost full size... so for those of you who felt these pieces should never be separated from each other: an intact collection is now available!

Denver International Airport Installation

Denver International Airport ‘here to there” art installation in main terminal.

One of my contributions... “Mapped,” 18 x 24″ collage with acrylic on wood panel.

I've somehow neglected to post news about my artwork at Denver International Airport (DIA)! Several enlargements from recent travel-inspired collages are part of an ongoing exhibition in the Main Terminal. An associated DIA Art Gallery show has already ended.

You don’t need to go through security to see the artwork. The installation is located on the 5th level—in the passageway directly below each of the east/west bridges, behind the rental car counters. Ask one of the cowboy-hatted greeters if you can't find it!

Details from three of my collages, all interpretations of travel, were enlarged and are included in the "here to there" installation along with those of fellow Expand artists Mary Williams, Ken Elliott, Carol Ann Waugh, and Victoria Eubanks. The panels were designed so that the elements from one image "travel" to visually connect with another -- quite a collaboration.Just making connections in Denver? You'll need to leave the secured concourses and head to the main terminal to see the work... a fun diversion, near a brewpub, if you have the time!The words that accompany the installation read:

here to therewe are wandererswe leave trails as much as we take trailsfoot steps through cities, woods, prairiesthreads that tie us to these places and each otherfragments of vistas and colorbits and pieces — we collect and leave behindcorners and u-turns that bring us full circlewe amble, we soar, we connectwe are masters at gettingfrom here to there

"Speed," by Janice McDonald, 18 x 24" collage with acrylic background on wood panel.

It's been a real thrill to see my artwork whenever I'm coming or going... or meeting up with friends/family who are! Check it out if you are traveling through Denver.

Botanicollage

About this time last year I was working on a series of nine collages with a botanical bent... and I'm really excited that they are now on view at the Loveland Museum Gallery as part of Xylem, a show of contemporary botanical artworks. The exhibition runs through March 15th in Loveland, Colorado. (Botanicollage has such a nice ring to it that I may have to continue the series!)