Hill Country Strong
NEWEST WORK
12"x12" | Oil on Canvas | 2026
The first painting of 2026 and the beginning of a new collection honoring working ranch women.
This piece captures a moment every ranch woman knows: that upward glance at the sky, reading the weather, gauging the day ahead. It's the pause between chores, the breath before the work begins again. She's checking what's coming—rain, wind, heat—because the land and the livestock depend on her knowing.
Working ranch women, like countless hard-working women everywhere, rise before dawn and don't quit until the job is done. They're built for hard ground, long days, and the kind of strength that doesn't need proving. This collection is my tribute to them—to us.
Impossible Repair
22" x 28"oil on canvas
My current work in progress is that of a woman rancher at a fence line, leather-gloved hands working barbed wire—skilled, necessary labor performed daily across the 1800s American West. Technical drafting overlays mark her with period assessments: "not strong enough," "will injure hands," "too soft," "cannot tolerate pain."
The title carries deliberate irony. The "impossible repair" isn't the fence—it's the systematic bias that labeled capable women as inadequate while they did the work anyway. She repairs what they said she couldn't; what remains impossible to repair is a century of dismissal.
Part of Against the Grid collection, an evolving series examining how women ranchers were measured against standards designed to prove their inadequacy, despite their undeniable capability.
