Artwork

You can find original artworks and commission your own portrait or painting on my Etsy website, https://www.etsy.com/shop/SundryTravels

The following collection of paintings, drawings, etchings, sewing, sculpting, murals, collage and doodles represent the evolution of my work from 2007.

Winter 2020 – Summer 2021

Illustrations for articles I wrote and published for the online version of the magazine Russian Life

In January 2021, I finished a commission to create branding – a logo and packaging design – for the Charlottesville-based artisanal chocolate company Odyssey Chocolate. What you see is the result!

Fall and Winter 2020

Late Summer 2020

Sketch of the Danube from Zemun, New Belgrade

Spring – summer 2020

Winter 2019 – 2020

Summer – Fall 2019

I produced most of these works during the summer of 2019 in Comrat, Moldova, where I was conducting research for my master’s thesis on the country’s media system. Others were done in France with family, and some as I was studying for my second year of a Russian and Eastern European studies master’s program. These connections to the former Soviet Union and Russian Orthodoxy has influenced much of the work from these months. This includes an icon depicting the story of the woman who washes Jesus’s feet. I have a deep respect for the Russian Orthodox Church an the artwork associated with it, and so attempted to incorporate stylistic elements of iconography and Biblical themes into my work.

Work from 2018-2019

Moldova 2016 – 2017

Phoenix Project 2017

What began as a mistake became a group collaboration and ended in destruction. We joked – the Miras Phoenix symbolized the rebirth of the organization, and like the mythical bird, the organization would rise anew. But the office really needed a makeover – and so, back to ashes she burned.