Paintings

I’ve been working on intricate, embroidery-like patterns of plants, flowers, seeds and insects. Some are individually painted on a panel, like a botanical specimen held for close observation. Others are in cloud or island shaped groupings with subtle layers of color. Read more about the work in my artist statement: artist_statement_mulysa.pdf

All works are in graphite and oil paint on panel except where noted. Click on thumbnails to see larger images.

You can purchase my work at hunt & Gather in the Pearl District.

Summer Celebration, detail of proof

Intaglio on rag paper

Winter Jubilation, detail of proof

Intaglio on rag paper

Sneak peek of a new project: Four seasonal botanical etching from 9×12″ copper plates. Here are details of the ‘first state’ proofs of two of them. Next the plates will be coated with fine resin and etched in 5 to 10 or more stages to add gradations of value. Then I will print another layer (or layers) on top with loose washes of color. That is the plan anyway.. part of the fun of printmaking is the transformation that happens along the way.

Sound Sleep
Oil on panel

Where I am From
All I See
All I can Say
6″ x 6″
Oil and pencil on panel

Balcony
11″ x 14″
Oil and pencil on panel– sold

Sprouts

Oil and pencil on wood

8 x 8 in.

First Day, Cabbage field detail
Oil on panel

First Day, Flower field detail

First Day
Oil on panel

Mindful Observation
Original, Pencil and oil on panel
Prints on Bamboo paper, mounted on bamboo panel available through Plywerk.
18″ x 12″

Small Lichen No. 4
Oil on panel
3″ x 4″

Meadow silhouettes
sold

Flowery Mead silhouettes

Kiku silhouette
sold

Seeds and sprouts paintings in the studio

Vegetable blocks
sold

Garden plot, detail, Cauliflower

Garden plot, detail, Brussels sprouts

Garden plot, detail, Cabbages
sold

Small Future Garden
Oil and pencil on wood, 16″ x 18″ sold

Small Future Garden, detail, Japanese Anemone

Small Future Garden, detail, Peach tree

Small Future Garden, detail, Sunflowers

Seed grid
42 panels, 5″ x 5″ each.

Seed grid, detail

Seed heart
sold

Seeds

Cherry tree
8″ x 8″
sold

Future Garden
40″ x 40″
Pencil and oil on panel

Future Garden, detail, Food garden

Future Garden, detail, Woodland Garden

Future Garden, detail, Blueberries

Future Garden, detail, Orchard with birds

Certain Places
Oil, gold leaf and pencil on panel, 24″ x 14″

Plan views, Fenton House and Sissinghurst Castle Garden

Oil and pencil on panel

Garden As It Was, detail

Garden As It Was
Oil and pencil, 40″ x 40″

This is one of a series of paintings about my garden of nine years. Here the figure starts and garden and leaves it, cataloging her memories of it. These works were so interesting so show because viewers had such different interpretations of the narrative, and many wanted to tell me the story they saw.