Gilded Adornment Portrait
This series was created in collaboration with Silverstorm Jewelry, merging portraiture, metal leaf, and handcrafted jewelry into a shared visual language. Each work integrates wearable adornment directly into the painted surface, honoring identity, memory, and personal ritual. The collection was exhibited at the Silverstorm Jewelry store in Scituate, Massachusetts, where fine art and jewelry were experienced together as one.
Silver Fox
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
Silver Fox is a portrait of quiet strength, resilience, and earned wisdom. It honors a woman shaped by time and experience, whose presence settles calmly rather than demands attention. Her silver hair and fine lines are not softened or hidden, but embraced as markers of laughter, endurance, and a life fully lived. Her steady gaze reflects confidence rooted in self-knowledge, not performance.
Layers of metal leaf, pigment, and hand-drawn line create a surface that shifts with light, echoing how identity deepens over time without losing its core. Gold and silver tones move subtly as the viewer moves, while the flowing background suggests memory, place, and continuity. Integrated jewelry elements act as extensions of the figure herself, referencing adornment as personal history, objects worn, gifted, and passed through generations.
This portrait celebrates aging as accumulation rather than loss. Silver Fox invites viewers to slow down, look closer, and recognize the quiet dignity, beauty, and power found in experience.
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
Autumn Joy
Autumn Joy celebrates presence, gratitude, and the quiet happiness found in fully inhabiting the moment. The portrait captures a woman mid-laughter, eyes gently closed, as joy arrives not as spectacle, but as something felt deeply in the body. This is joy shaped by lived experience and by embracing each season as it unfolds.
Warm golds and earthy tones echo the richness of autumn, while cooler blues move through the background like air and memory, suggesting rhythm, transition, and time. Layers of metal leaf and pigment shift subtly with light, keeping the surface alive and responsive, while hand-drawn lines preserve intimacy and honesty.
Integrated jewelry elements reference moments of gathering, ritual, and personal history, grounding the portrait in memory and meaning. Autumn Joy honors the ease that comes when self-consciousness falls away and reminds us that joy is not something to chase, but something already present, waiting to be felt and shared.
Zen
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
This self-portrait explores identity as layered, shifting, and deeply tied to inner experience. Rather than a fixed image, it captures a moment of becoming—where memory, emotion, and imagination coexist on the surface. The figure looks outward while remaining inwardly focused, with freckles and subtle imperfections preserved as markers of lived experience.
Cool metallic tones create a quiet distance that invites reflection, while fields of saturated color move behind the figure like emotional currents, visualizing inner landscapes in motion. Layers of metal leaf, pigment, and hand-drawn line respond to light and movement, mirroring how identity adapts over time. Integrated jewelry functions as personal artifact, carrying memory and intention.
This work is an act of self-acknowledgment rather than self-definition. It embraces complexity, softness, and strength, and invites viewers to see identity as something continuously shaped by experience, creativity, and reflection.
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
Jen
Jen is a celebration of presence, gratitude, and the quiet happiness found in fully inhabiting the moment. The portrait captures her mid-laughter, eyes gently closed, as joy arrives not as spectacle but as something felt deeply in the body. This is joy shaped by living, by gathering experiences, and by embracing each season as it unfolds.
Warm golds and earthy tones echo the richness of autumn, while cooler blues move through the background like air and memory, suggesting rhythm and change. Layers of metal leaf and pigment shift subtly with light, keeping the surface alive and responsive, while hand-drawn lines preserve intimacy and immediacy.
Integrated jewelry elements reference moments of gathering, ritual, and personal history, grounding the portrait in memory. Jen honors the fullness of lived experience and reminds us that joy is not something to chase, but something already present—waiting to be felt and shared.
Shelby
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
Shelby is a portrait of lightness, resilience, and unapologetic joy. She appears smiling openly, grounded and playful at once, captured in a moment where confidence and ease meet. Her expression is warm and inviting, suggesting strength carried with humor, curiosity, and an open heart.
Layered blues move behind her like water and sky, creating depth and motion while echoing a life lived in rhythm with nature. Metal leaf and pigment shift with light, keeping the surface alive and responsive, while hand-drawn lines preserve intimacy and immediacy. Integrated jewelry elements are woven into the portrait as extensions of identity, referencing memory, protection, and personal ritual.
Shelby celebrates self-acceptance and joy without apology. It invites viewers to smile back, feel a sense of ease, and recognize joy as a powerful, grounding force.
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Acrylic Paint
Gold, Silver & Copper Leaf
Varigated Spring Leaf
Jewelry From Silverstorm
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Width 16”
Height 16”
Depth 1.5”
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Price given upon request
Rachel
Rachel is a portrait of stillness, intuition, and inner clarity. Shown with eyes gently closed, the figure turns inward, listening rather than speaking. This quiet pause becomes the center of the work, inviting calm reflection and steady presence.
Layered bands of blue move behind her like water and breath, suggesting rhythm, depth, and emotional continuity. Metal leaf and pigment shift softly with light, keeping the surface alive yet restrained, while hand-drawn lines preserve intimacy. Integrated jewelry elements rest close to the heart as symbols of ritual, connection, and protection.
Rachel honors the strength found in awareness and trust. It invites viewers to slow down, breathe, and recognize stillness itself as a powerful form of resilience.