ART Shows, INSTRUCTION AND EXHIBITIONS

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Click below to see Dahlia's vending and show schedule on her home page. 

Dahlia is available for group or private art instruction, lectures, exhibitions, articles and more!  Do you like her style and have a collection of scrap metal, hardware, postcards, pins and more?  Commission Dahlia to make a piece for you!  Click "EMAIL DAHLIA FOR INFO OR QUOTE" on details for commissions,  art instruction or scheduling a showing.

This is a pour and flow technique, which combines acrylic, gloss and water in varying consistencies to create abstract organic forms on canvas and wood.

Scrap metal with interesting shapes from machine shops, vacant lots, sidewalks and more are transformed  into collages and scenes .  She also uses the same approach with vintage hardware.All metal is mounted on acrylic painted backdrops or plaques,  made from wood.  

Dahlia makes three types of paper collages.  1.  Post card - typically vintage.  2. Magazine / newsletter  for vision boards and fun.  3.  Art paper  involving  pre-made or handmade sheets . 

Most beaded earrings and necklaces  are made from new and recycled beads.  She also uses semi-precious stones and natural beads such as wood, horn or bone to create products specifically for healing and protection.

Enameling fusing powdered glass to copper with heat, yielding bright, shiny colors and texture.

Tin  containers with interesting patters and designs on them are cut up a using a stencil and polished creating one of a kind vignettes.

Dahlias drawing style often has borders and is composed in postcard style vignettes resembling folk art and vintage designs.  She uses colored pencil and pen on paper to create her work.

Dahlia is primarily a nature photographer.   Native to the West Coast, her photographs include the Southwest Desert, California, New York and beyond.