Unrequited Love (for Felicia Dorothea Browne) collage & watercolor on paper 24.5” x 33” framed 2023-2024

Untitled Portrait (Daydreamer) collage, acrylic & watercolor on book board 14” x 11” 2023

The Oracle collage & watercolor on vintage lithograph 10” x 10” 2017 Private collection

Reach collage on handmade paper 6.25” x 4” 2025 SOLD

A fleeting moment on the shores of paradise collage on handmade paper 4” x 6” 2025

Images of loss and longing, a melancholy romance. Framed in flowers: * Ranunculus = you are radiant with charms * Variegated tulips = beautiful eyes * Red tulips = declaration of love * Garden anemones = forsaken

As a young girl in the early 1800s, Late Romantic poet, Felicia Dorothea Browne, signed her aunt, Anne Wagner’s, friendship book with exquisite mixed media collages of sea life. In one, she identifies Sappho, the Archaic Greek lyrical poet who reportedly leapt from the Leucadian Cliffs, throwing herself to the sea, killing herself over her unrequited love for the ferryman Phaon.

From Felicia’s poem, “The Last Song of Sappho”:

I, with this winged nature fraught, These visions wildly free, This boundless love, this fiery thought — — Alone I come — oh! give me peace, dark sea!

Dream: Two Women, Nearly Identical, Holding White Cats or The Birth of Venus collage on vintage lithograph 13” x 17” 2022-2024

A dance and a flurry of wings collage on paper 10” x 10” 2024 SOLD

As the Red River Rises collage on handmade paper 4” x 6” 2025

The Moth, The Flame collage on paper 6” x 6” 2025