Tulip Tree Creative Studios has recently opened a shop on the Etsy site. New pieces are being listed all the time, so please visit often. Click on the image at left to be taken to the Tulip Tree Creative Studios Etsy shop!

At the moment the shop is focusing on the Trouble Doll watercolor series, and 10% of the proceeds from all sales will be donated to Oxfam America to assist their dedicated effort to create lasting solutions to end global hunger, poverty, and injustice.

Self produced

Full-color 7.5"x7.5" spiral bound paperback 12 month journal and calendar. Designed with Adobe InDesign; digital press.

This journal is available at Lulu.com!

Client: Animal Clinic of Chardon

Full-color 8.5"x14" four-panel gatefold brochure. Designed with Adobe InDesign; digital press.

Client: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

3 piece Annual Fund Campaign mailing design.

Full-color 14.25"x8.75" four-panel gatefold brochure; full-color #10 outer envelope; full color #9 return envelope. Designed with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop; offset press.

Client: The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Invitation design for Natural Melodies, a combined event for Museum and Cleveland Institute of Music donors.

Full-color 5"x7" invitation and A7 outer mailing envelope. Designed with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop; digital press.

Self produced

Full-color 8.5 "x11" casebound hardcover book. Designed with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop; digital press.

Self Produced

Invitation design for a child's birthday party.

Full-color 5.5" x 4.25 " top fold invitation. Designed with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop; digital press.

A fascination with the processes, rhythms and cycles found within the natural world, and the imagery of musical instruments inspires my paintings more than anything. Within this context of rhythms and cycles, I am also deeply influenced by music and create my pieces not unlike the process of musical composition, focusing on rhythm, color and tone. I’m greatly affected by the music I’m listening to while I paint, and in addition to inspiring me, it  helps me clear my mind, which in turn allows me to respond to the music purely and on a very gut level. The concept of automatic painting, also known as surrealist automatism, as it relates to creating paintings is also plays a role in many of my pieces.

I work primarily in watercolor and acrylic, and occasionally in oil.

Please contact me to discuss your interest in a commissioned painting.