Fall 2026 New Work

When the Weather Gets Into the Work

Usually, my new-work drops contain everything I've accumulated over the course of the month. This one is a little smaller than usual. After so many shows back to back, I've been pretty exhausted, and I've only been home for two weeks.

There’s another reason, too. I’m at the start of a new series, one I’ve been building toward all summer in anticipation of fall.

The glass itself has been in the works for months, laminating layers whenever I could squeeze in some studio time between shows, then packing up and heading back out on the road.

Meanwhile, this past spring, I came across a parcel of moonstones that I absolutely fell in love with. Each one seemed to hold a brewing storm. Those stones became the impetus for experimenting with a darker, stormier palette, toned down from my usual bright colors.

The challenge was figuring out how to mute the colors enough to get the mood I wanted without turning everything to mud. The experimenting began.

This past show season gave me plenty of stormy inspiration. Living on the East Coast, we've had a summer filled with flash flood warnings and powerful storms. Add in scorching temperatures and wildfire smoke, and it's been quite a season.

All of it found its way into my sketchbook, which filled with linear, squiggly shapes. They were my way of processing the wind, rain, heat, haze, and storm surges I’d been living through.

Eventually, the colors and shapes started coming together. I landed on a palette unlike anything I've worked with before, and forms that evoke wind, rain, and storm surges.

This series is still developing, and there's more to come.

Here’s a glimpse of my thought process: