Not all of the beauty on the prairie is scene in wide vistas. Some of the loveliest scenes are found in small fields or pastures.

Oil on Canvas

Alcohol Ink on Synthetic Paper

Iowa pond scene misty morning

Fused Glass Art

Zebra hiding slightly behind the other zebra at the Sedgwick County Zoo

Sunlit glass bottle of perfume is gracefully decorated with golden petals. Beside it, a delicate glass holds vibrant yellow flowers, adding a touch of warmth and joy to the decor.

This painting is a detailed exploration of a single element of a neighbor’s garden observed along a sidewalk in Kansas City’s Hyde Park neighborhood, expressed using liquid and vine charcoal, acrylic paint, and pastels on canvas. This painting explores movement and lightness through the expression of the delicate, dark, dramatic, and detailed. Flowers are collaborative, yet competitive.

Aged cherry, free standing, gently anthropomorphic, friendly.

This is a piece made from steel, magnets and thread to show value of delicate balance.

Large peach poppy on dark background

2 bunnies sleeping circle with dandelions

Cathedral Rock, Sedona, Arizona

Some creatures are just as beautiful as the landscape in which they call home.

Sunset

eARTH Exhibition for Rose Brooks April 2025. Wilcox Ranch; Ken crossing levee.

These two monarchs were created using black glass enamel with glass powder. One butterfly is predominantly orange with marigold accents, while the other butterfly is shades of azure blue. The bodies are individually sculpted from an innovative clay-like glass product. The butterflies are displayed on standoffs in a black shadowbox frame. The standoffs allow the light to filter behind them in the frame. The frame is approximately 9" x 11" and the butterfly sculptures measure approximately 4" x 4.5" each. The frame has a kick-stand that will allow shelf or table display. It also has wire across the back to allow for wall hanging.

Hand shaped aged Virginia Pine stands knee high

Aged elm, free standing, gently anthropomorphic, friendly.

This Image is a what I call Coffee prints. The negative of these image are developed in Coffee.

Pink wildflowers, alcohol ink

The Wuksachi Lodge is surrounded by sequoia forest and Sierra peaks, in the heart of Sequoia National Park. On a recent visit, I had the opportunity to sit with my painting supplies and capture this scene. pencil/ink/watercolor on hot pressed 300g paper

I would like this landscape to entice the viewer to walk the path, past the tree, to discover where hidden beauty awaits the traveler. I hope BEGINNING OF MY JOURNEY talks to you.

A bee near a musk thistle with pollen dripping

A photo of a valley with Slide Lake in Yellowstone National Park between Mammoth Springs and Gardiner, Montana transformed into a painting.

Needle felting impressionism.

Hand-printed rice paper, acrylic

The Western Meadowlark, also know as the Kansas state bird.

The Grand Canyon, beautiful part of our wonderful United States of America. Enjoy this scenic painting in your beautiful home.

Filing Hills landscape with pawn

"Flowing Vibrant Streams" is a captivating journey into the realm of abstract expression. Measuring 12x12 inches, this artwork masterfully blends acrylic, marker, and graphite to create a complex and lively visual experience. The composition bursts with dynamic colors, dominated by striking shades of teal, turquoise, and green. These cool tones are energetically interrupted by bold strokes of coral and peach, which bring a sense of warmth and balance to the piece. Subtle touches of brown and white are strategically placed to add depth and contrast.

Water Lillies in the genus Nymphaea swooning in the dark waters of K-State Gardens.

Folly Theater

watercolor pen and ink

Ceramic form with sycamore leaf imprint. I enjoy sharing my work that reflects the beauty of the earth made with clay from the earth. I am inspired by nature and use natural items such as leaves to create lasting artwork. Each leaf is used only once so each piece is unique. Sycamore Leaf Natural was created by pressing a sycamore leaf into a slab of speckled buff clay. After cutting around the leaf and shaping it, the leaf was removed and discarded. After being bisque fired, a glossy black glaze was applied and then sanded off to accentuate and reveal the veins in the leaf. Leaves have continually been a favorite subject for my work. I enjoy looking for leaves to use in my pottery to preserve the beauty of each leaf in a lasting form. The size is 10.5x10x1.25 inches. KM3236. IMG_2529.

Gliding on water. Giclee canvas print mounted on a chiseled handmade frame.

beautiful creek in Colorado

Leaves of red and orange are featured in this scenic painting

After the storm, a beautiful rainbow.

I love taking long walks and noticing the world around me. One of my favorite trees is a very old ginkgo tree on the KU Campus. It has beautiful leaves and bark. I am often inspired by its changing qualities. This piece is made with dupioni silk, paint, and thread painting.

Douglas Branch Prairie, Vernon County, Missouri

Embroidered jellyfish on a blue acrylic backgroound

Prairie Burn on The Cowboy Way Ranch, Wamego, KS.

Kansas City, as seen from the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. This is where Lewis and Clark's "Corps of Discovery" camped on their way to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean. The rivers were highways into the unknown, and would provide countless starting points for settlement of the land.

From a bicycle ride to Parkville on a summer day.

A dive through the many layers of ocean currents and flows.

A clear autumn day captured in Yosemite National Park. To the left basked in sunlight is Yosemite itself, center frame you can see half dome, so named because it appears as half of a sphere. To the right you can see Yosemite falls. All three beautiful examples of the world around us.

Sunlight and shadow in a late autumn afternoon on Prairie Creek Trail. Oil painting.

Oil painting of red roses

Keukenhof Gardens Lisse Netherlands

watercolor and acrylic on paper

The morning light illuminated the swiss chard providing natural light highlighting its stalks. A rich contrast to the earthy textured mulch.

Baskets made of white paper lined up with luscious apples on market day

Farmer's Market onions with morning sunshine splashed across

Hand dyed and commercial fabric enhanced with beads and thread. The hand dyed fabric came from a workshop I participated in with friends, outside, on a summer day. The yard was filled with foliage and wildlife, like the quilt.

Oil on Canvas with Vintage Wood Frame. A meditation painting on a dream about fleeing abuse to a safe place.

matted and framed to 20 x 16"

matted and framed to 20 x 16"

Painted circles on ancestral volcanic cone on the North Head, NZ

Acrylic on Canvas

While visiting a shop in Weston, Mo I met Grady. He is the shop owners dog. I think he is beautiful and just had to paint him

Spring Parasol Mushrooms

Glass Sculpture inspired by honeybees and their importance to our world. Artistic Process: For the backgrounds, I cut multiple hexagons and fired them together to create the desired thickness as well as color and depth. I then cut many hexagons in different shades of ambers. These were fired to the base larger hexagons to create the honeycomb design. Cutting hexagons is the geometry and math challenge - decide size, then cut the right width in rectangle shape, determine correct angle and cut one way, flip cut another way, which gets diamond shape then make it a hexagon. The bees are kilncasted and permanently adhered to the honeycomb. The stands are made of multiple layers of glass cut into a complementary shape to fit the overall design. I made amber glass "pebbles" and added them to the front and back of the stand to create drops of honey. The sculptures come together to form a larger honeycomb look for the hive.

Night Heron in Dune Lake at Grayton Beach, FL framed in formal black wooden frame

Matted and framed to 16 x 20". Expressive and inviting! I hope

Lots of color. Impressionistic yet playful. Hope the eye moves around and doesn't stop. My goal on everything I do....

Matted and framed to 16 x 20". Bright and colorful with lots of impressionistic movement!

Original acrylic painting on canvas | 36" x 36"

Painting of rural Nebraskan landscape with wind turbines.

Heidi Pitre oil painting on panel of a man in a swamp realizing he has company. Framed.

Morning in Tuscany

The magic of Aspens is captured with textures that are achieved through the use of a palette knife in conjunction with acrylic paint, gel and modeling paste on a gallery wrapped canvas.

Soaring off the canvas to reach for the sky, the magic of the aspens is full of textures from the trunks to the quaking leaves. The musical sound is created with a palette knife using acrylic paint, gel and modeling paste.

Off the canvas texture is the main story of Spun Sugar. Using a palette knife in conjunction with acrylic paint, gel and modeling paste, creates a stylized floral with depth of color and value withing the positive and negative shapes.

Colorful mountains

Sunflowers in blue jar

Partially buried feather and leaves on shoreline.

close up of fall flower

Spring is in the air with beautiful flowers blossoming. This art represents the exuberance of the new season.

Based on photo taken at Powell Gardens of colorful lily pads.

Beautiful sky and the field in the countryside; for eARTh show, this one not framed

A colorful, contemporary riot of flowers and foliage are contained in a vase, demonstrating how humans interact with and collect the natural beauty that the earth provides.

A simple scene on the prairie, with a strong horizon line of waving grasses under the wide open, bright blue sky.

I have been teaching art for almost two decades, including the likes of Kindergarten through 12th grade and even at the college level. My students can attest that I do not let them waste anything. I am constantly spraying down paint with water to keep it usable, picking objects off the floor and keeping articles that others might find useless. It is also common to see me digging in the trash because “I...can use this for something.” Through this, I have been collecting discarded materials that I feel could be used within my art. My artwork is built one layer at a time. Although my theme is aimed at portraying the various emotions the heart can experience; when I begin a piece, I do not have an image of what the end result might be. I incorporate what I am feeling into the materials I have found on my scavenger encounters. I had always despised the symbol of the heart. To me, it represented something that everyone knows how to draw, and a sappy feeling of love…uggghhhh!!! I thought, “Real artists don’t use hearts, or any symbols for that matter.” The year 2007, I went through an incredibly tumultuous time in my life. The result, I literally “felt” the spectrum of emotions my heart endured. This phenomenon led me to redefine what I thought the “heart” represented. My series “Junk of the Heart” represents all the junk, or emotions, that can be endured and what we choose “do” with them. The product is a metaphor for how the "junk" of our hearts can be transformed and reinvented into art.

Junk of the heART #229- Mixed Media on Glass 2023 13" x 13" ~Framed Dark Blue/Green $75

Contemporary impressionistic painting of poppy field

Impressionistic painting of poppies along a path.

Two red winged blackbirds together among a abstract bright painterly background

Fiber drawing in radial format of the Bryonia Alba plant with flowers. Hand-made plant dyed cotton of Turmeric & Nettle & repurposed fabrics, ink, and embroidery.

Virasana was created with joint knives, rubber blades and construction tools. It is titled after the Hero pose in modern yoga. Virasana is a kneeling asana and a beginning position for many forward and backwards bends or twists. Virasana may also be used as an alternate pose for meditation. This large scale abstract artwork is influenced by Hennick’s meditation and yoga practice. This painting was completed in 2024.

Arcylic painting of a Stalked Scarlet Cup (Sarcoscypha occidentalis) mushroom on gallery wrapped canvas. Canvas is 1-1/2" deep, painting extends over edges of canvas.

Acrylic painting of a Two-Colored Bolete (Baorangia bicolor) mushroom on gallery wrapped canvas. Canvas is 1-1/2" deep, painting extends over edges of canvas.

A serene abstract landscape, where overlapping brush strokes create depth and harmony in trees, sky, and earth. This painting invites viewers into a calm sanctuary, blending soft colors to evoke the feeling of peace in nature. The short, overlapping strokes form a tapestry of trees, allowing light to filter through and dance among the leaves. By squinting, the viewer captures intimacy with the soothing elements of the scene.

Porcelain envelop vase with inlaid colored slip.

Porcelain tray inlaid with colored slip

Porcelain ceramic sculpture of oysters and turtles emerging from their shells in a large pine wooden bowl.

Late summer plein air study of field and distant trees

Pomegranate study painted from life

Rooted in a beautiful lump of burled bristle cone pine, the ceramic limbs appear to spin in the wind.

A nocturne of a gas station outside Buffalo Missouri

Kansas Nocturne inspired by photo taken outside of Clay Center, KS while star gazing.

Black butterfly on green

Monarch on blue flowers

Small monarch on blue and green flowers

mixed media on Water color paper

acrylic of board

Oil on Canvas for eARTh show

Oil on Canvas for eARTh

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas San Diego colorful walking paths through Balboa Park inspired this colorful creation.

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. Everyone’s has a better day when they can eat cake!

Low-fired clay piece, finished with diluted, hand-painted acrylics

Same piece...just different background

El Capitan, Yosemite

2 sheep grazing in early Spring

Wall Piece/Dish (handpainted) Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze, 24k German Gold Luster, Wire Year: 2025 Size: 4.25×6.25×0.5in Signed by hand

Wall Piece/Dish (handpainted) Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, Overglaze, 24k German Gold Luster, Wire Year: 2025 Size: 4.25×6.25×0.5in Signed by hand

Drawing. Ink and acrylic on paper

Astrophotography of a moss filled barn

A depiction of a late spring day in Flint Hills.

Fused Glass Drop Vessel: Crafted with glass powder on sheet glass

This is a photograph I took near Manhattan, KS that highlights some of the many flowers in that area. The photo was digitally alterned to make it look like an older photograph.

Late summer plein air view, looking south from Nelson Island in the Kansas River. Oil on canvas.

Studio painting of wheat fields ripening in late May near Adrian, Missouri. Oil stick on wood panel.

Ginkgo leaves in autumn on the grounds of the Nels0-Atkins Museum of Art.

A large statement piece, bringing the flowers inside. Inspired by a living wall I saw in New Orleans.

winter scene outside my window

Yellow sunflower

Storm clouds

Plein air painting of neighbor's stand of hollyhocks. Framed in white frame.

Starry night sky over the Tooth of Time ridge near Cimarron, NM

Fresh radishes straight from the farmer's garden to my kitchen!

Balck-eyed Susan with early morning dew

Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park with a Buffalo Grazing

Colorful mountain landscape