Snook's Jazz

My beloved, New Orleans! Drowned by Katrina and the flood waters of 2005! Gone are the the culture and historical evidence of a special time and place where the Blues and Jazz were born. Katrina laid an unmitigated human disaster upon New Orleans with no one to protect and save her.

All of these acrylic paintings are on black Arches paper, 22"x22", series of paintings titled, Snooks' Jazz, 1998-2003. They are a tribute to the artist's late husband, George Michael Kren, a man she called Snook's!

Dreams and Memories

My suite of lithographs “Dreams and Memories” evolved through drawings I began in the early 1980’s. I used universal and personal themes to attempt to confront some seemingly paradoxical dualities. I became aware, only after I completed the work, of certain meanings which continue to surface for me and which other people see when they view my lithographs.

Prints are available for $60 each or as a full set in portfolio presentation for $1,000.

A Round about George -- Charcoal and Pastel

Before living in this white frame house with my husband, George, in a particular town in Kansas, I had never stayed in one place more than eight years. Living in one place for twenty-five years has taught me to see change as an integral part of life. Like the diarist and compulsive letter writer that I am., I have wanted to go a step further and put my experience into a visual and verbal form. Feeling that I needed more than to commit this experience to memory and that my memory might fail me, I began to draw as if I was photographing for the last time. I created a visual record of the things that created a kind of visual Symphonia Domestica.

Oil on Canvas

When I paint, I use a technique of piling layer upon layer of dry or wet rough strokes, allowing previous color to show though the brush, and making it dazzle. Every painting I paint involves my whole past debts to other painters. Some of my figures are drawn in outline, flirting with cartoon figures as if they were from another level of reality, another area of experience. The interweaving of shapes takes precedence over anatomical accuracy – painterly not illustrative, intuitive not conceptual. There is a sense of recognizing and looking back at what has been made public, transforming each object to take on multilayers of meaning.