Commissioned Artwork

Every pet portrait is unique – not a photograph, painting, or pastel drawing but rather one that uses paper cutout collage. Pets are often considered to be a loving member of one’s family. After consultation with a client and using reference photos of their pet, I create a treasured pet portrait paper cutout. The portrait […]

The main sanctuary and chapel at Temple Sinai in Sandy Springs, GA are spaces that can be described as embodying understated elegance. A sanctuary seating area is surrounded by oversized glass windows and looks out onto a multitude of trees and open sky, bringing the outside world directly  into the sanctuary space. My Torah cover

Commissioned by The William Breman Jewish Home, my concept and copyrighted designs for the Jewish Celebrations quilt’s 15 blocks and border were sewn with applique and embroidery by many talented women of the metro Atlanta Jewish community. To see the Jewish holidays all together as one permanent installation, while having a Torah surrounded by the

Dedicated to the memory of my father-in-law, Harry Rosefsky, of blessed memory (1904-2002), this portrait incorporates a span of four generations of Harry’s family. Using original ephemera (found papers) from a man who never threw anything away, or with photographs saved in boxes or yellowed envelopes, I used those materials to portray Harry, with the

News clippings, ticket stubs, passports, photographs with  exemplary well organized hand written “to do” lists  from a father who had recently passed away, his son brought these items in a large suitcase, for me to use only  a portion of this ephemera collection to create a meaningful mixed media collage that would capture his father’s

A teenage boy’s portrait using the art of paper cutouts, in what is known as  “drawing with scissors,” a method and words attributed to Henri Matisse, who enjoyed cutting directly into color paper with his scissors, instead of first using a line drawing as a template or pattern. Unlike a photograph or perhaps a more