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Coiled & Twisted: An Introduction to the Knot Gallery
Explore the Collection
Welcome to the Knot Gallery, the digital sanctuary for my fiber-based creations. Here, I weave together tactile artistry and personal narratives to explore the complex textures of human experience.As you navigate the collection, I invite you to click on the artwork to reveal the hidden threads. Each piece is paired with "Yarns About Life"—a series of stories and reflections on leadership and growth that are knotted into the very fibers of the art. I hope these works inspire you to find beauty in the connections we create every day.
After forty years in the hospitality industry, my days were defined by strict brand standards and corporate logic. I spent decades managing logistics and guest experiences, but I always kept a piece of rope or yarn nearby to balance the data. Connecting with fiber art allowed me to weave a bit of soul back into the analytical world. Today, I use those same coiling and knotting techniques to tell stories of leadership and life, turning years of professional structure into creative expression.
Featured series
Select any collection below to explore intimate close-ups and see my creative process in action. Each series includes companion stories that reveal the inspiration behind the fiber.
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The Knot Art Creative Process
Polarity
This core piece illustrates my artistic practice of navigating tension and balance. Through intricate knots, I explore the harmony within opposites to create a warm, unified energy flow. I move between the strength of a frame and the flow of the fibers, mirroring how life requires both a plan and the grace to improvise.
The coiling of vibrant feminine and masculine energy flow.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, metal framework
Dimensions: 19" in Diameter x 5"
Year Completed: 2025
Transitions in Flight
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Moving with change, not against it
Celebrating the many transitions we experience in life — the quiet lifts, sudden drops, and in‑between glides. Each knot and curve traces a moment of change: leaving, arriving, hesitating, leaping. Transitions in Flight is a visual map of motion and becoming, honoring the ways we rise, circle back, and find new currents to carry us forward.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap
Dimensions: 24" x 37" x 10"
Year Completed: 2024
Details of Transitions in Flight
Transitions in Flight gathers the stories behind this piece—layoffs, relocations, culture clashes, and unexpected chances to begin again—and how each one reshaped my leadership, my work, and my art. Each knot and loop holds a small shift: a choice, a loss, a new beginning. The blogs linked to this artwork invite you to see your own career transitions not as detours, but as the moments that quietly define who you’re becoming.
Yarns About Life - Transitions in Flight
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Octopi
Reaching beyond the Frame
Octopi evolved from two separate works into a single, intertwined narrative of freedom. These fiber-crafted creatures developed organically, eventually breaking past the limits of their gilded frame to explore an ocean of possibilities. It is a tactile narrative of untethering—an exploration of what happens when our creative instincts refuse to be contained, breaking through the gilded edge to expand into the deep unknown.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, chicken wire, floral wire, burlap, gold frame
Dimensions: 20" x 20" x 4" (30" on the diagonal)
Year Completed: 2026
Details of Octopi in process
Yarns About Life - Octopi
Octopi is where my knot art and hotel / consulting life twist together. Using the octopus as a many‑armed metaphor, this series explores how we design training and leadership support to help people reach beyond their "frame". Tools that reach many different kinds of learners—without losing the human, face‑to‑face heart of service. These stories are for anyone who wants service training to feel serious and playful, strategic and deeply human.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
Succulent
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Resilience reborn in the coil of time
Reimagined ten years after its initial creation, Succulent is a testament to the beauty of second chances. Where once there were simple knots, there is now a vibrant, sculptural energy, brought to life through intentional coiling and the removal of the old to make room for the new. It stands as a reminder that our own stories are never static; we are always capable of unfolding into a more resilient form. The hand-wrapped cords winding through the modern composition are a tactile celebration of growth and the infinite beauty of evolution within us all.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap canvas
Dimensions: 18" x 16" x 4"
Year Reimagined: 2025 (Original 2015)
Original 2015
Yarns About Life - Succulent
The Art of Transformation & Resilience
This Succulent series uses one artwork as a metaphor for how people, teams, and companies grow through patient, documented change.
These Yarns About Life follow that transformation and invite you to notice your own.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Winter Trees
Soft winter hues reveal three sculptural trees, their roots and branches intricately knotted together amidst a landscape of silent snow and biting winds. Winter Trees is a reflection on the profound resilience of community—the quiet beauty of being held up by others and anchored by our collective strength, unshaken by the changing environment.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap, wool felting, chicken wire, textured decoupage wooden frame
Dimensions: 30.5" x 26" x 5"
Year Completed: 2026
Even the mightiest trees need a little support
Details of Winter Trees-Branches & Roots
Yarns About Life - Winter Trees
A Narrative of Support
This work explores the intertwined nature of roots and branches, serving as a metaphor for the strength we find within our communities. Even in the harshest winter, the support of those around us provides the grounding needed to remain standing. Each knot represents a connection made, a story shared, and a reminder that we are never truly alone.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Autumn
The amber breath of a forest in golden turn
A visual poem of the forest in transition, where deep autumnal hues and intricate knots trace the complex grace of change. This piece coils the silent resilience of nature into its organic textures, honoring the quiet strength found within every fiber and fold of the season's wood.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap, wool felting, wooden frame
Dimensions: 33" x 17.5" x 2"
Year Completed: 2025
Detail of Autumn
Yarns About Life - Autumn
Honoring the Vibrant Path Behind You
As the forest sheds its amber weight, we find grace in the letting go. The Autumn series mirrors my own growth—a time to honor the vibrant path behind me. This season asks me to loosen my grip—on the loss of my mother’s physical presence, on old roles—and lean into the quiet courage of letting go, one small leaf at a time.
In these yarns, I’m learning to trust what my mother planted in me and to find a quiet, tender beauty in beginning my next season.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Sunset
Finding solace in the soft light of a chapter's end
A visual meditation on the beauty of completion and the relief of letting go. "Sunset" captures the moment the horizon exhales in violet and gold. Each coil is a record of release, a tactile expression of being grateful that the day is done. It is an invitation to rest, to honor the lives and stories you’ve touched, and to trust that the night is not an absence of light, but a canvas for the next stars to appear.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, wool felting, chicken wire, white wooden frame
Dimensions: 36" x 14" x 3"
Year Completed: 2025
Tracing the Horizon:Sunset in Progress
Yarns About Life - Sunset
Sunsetting - Letting Go
We often treat endings with hesitation, yet the sky reminds us every evening that there is a quiet beauty in the letting go. This work was born from a personal “sunsetting”—stepping out of a long leadership career and into a new, more creative way of being. These fibers are knotted with gratitude, honoring the quiet grace of a career well-lived and the soft surrender required to welcome the stillness of what comes next.
The Sunset Series - This knot art is part of a five‑part story series about my final leadership sunset and the people who shaped it.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Medusa
Be a guardian
Medusa, like the mythical creature, is an act of rebirth. In 2019, she was a face knotted from colorful strands that never quite felt complete. For years she waited in the quiet, unfinished yet insistent. In 2025, the vision finally surfaced and Medusa emerged whole. A wooden frame, decoupaged in the earth‑deep hues representing her cave and the sea. Her hand is reaching forward. She has deep green eyes and a wild crown of serpent‑like hair. The white knotted air around her glows with her radiant power, while a single green serpent winds along the top. Medusa stands as a guardian, a symbol of protection against lurking danger and restless spirits.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap, decoupage wooden frame
Dimensions: 25.5" x 17" x 5"
Year Completed: 2025
Rebirth of Medusa
Yarns About Life - Medusa
Stories of Inner Strength
Medusa is a symbol of strength. She was forced to face punishment for the unwanted acts of two mythical gods. Once feared as a monster, Medusa becomes a guardian—a protector at the threshold, warding off danger and the quiet cruelties we carry. These are stories of my inner Medusa protecting my threshold, being my guardian and guide through difficult times.
Start with the story that tugs at you most, and follow the yarn.
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Galaxy
A Galaxy of Gratitude
In the quiet act of coiling, I find myself drifting among the stars. Galaxy is an exploration of the light we carry within us—the small, steady sparks of gratitude that map our inner sky. A reflective meditation on the infinite expanse of light and positive energy. Each spiraling cord and radiant knot captures a fragment of cosmic wonder, coiling the vastness of the universe into an intimate, tactile narrative of joy and gratitude.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, and burlap
Dimensions: 55" x 20" x 2"
Year Completed: 2024
Details of Galaxy In Progress
Yarns About Life - Galaxy
COMING SOON - Stories of Infinite Gratitude
Each knot is a thank‑you for the people, moments, and lessons that became my constellations, guiding me forward when I couldn’t see the whole view. In these fibers, I’ve tried to capture that feeling of looking up at the night and realizing how much of our lives are held together by unseen gifts—stardust, grace, and the quiet practice of noticing what we’ve been given and accomplished.
Climbing Rose
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Just because you have thorns, doesn't mean you have to use them
Just like the resilient rose that finds its way through the tightest trellis, my art explores the balance between strength and vulnerability. I use interwoven ropes wrapped in soft yarns to mimic the organic climb of nature, anchored by the structure of a vintage curtain rod. Every twist of the fiber is a step toward the light, a narrative of perseverance and the beautiful complexity of reaching for one's dreams.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, repurposed vintage curtain rod
Dimensions: 34" x 24" x 5"
Year Completed: 2025
Details of Climbing Rose
Yarns About Life - Climbing Rose
COMING SOON - Stories of Continuing to Climb and Flower Through the Thorns
There is an art to reaching for the sky and using thorns only when absolutely necessary. Being resilient while reaching for one's dreams is critical to the survival of the artistic and professional spirit. It is about the strength found in the climb and the beauty of blooming in your own time and your own way.
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Tide Pools
A universe revealed by the receding breath of the sea
Inspired by the quiet magic of the shoreline, where hidden worlds are uncovered only when the water retreats. This piece portrays three vibrant ecospheres, once separate, now merging into a singular, thriving landscape of discovery. As the fibers coil and climb, the life within stretches beyond the frame, continuous and untamed.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, burlap, metal rings, hand-dyed wooden frame with golden accents
Dimensions: 22" x 24" x 6"
Year Completed: 2025
Details of Tide Pools in Process
Yarns About Life - Tide Pools
COMING SOON - Stories Honoring the Teams Beneath the Surface
There is a specific magic found in the stillness of a tide pool—a world that waits for the water to leave so it can finally be seen. I have always appreciated the many layered worlds thriving below the surface in the small spaces of hotels, like back of the house kitchens, laundries and housekeeping departments. When the tide rolls out, these are the areas that keep the hotel flowing. It reminds me that even in moments of low tide—these are the people who prepare us for high tide.
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Party Hat
Who can resist a vibrant celebration?
Dedicated to my sister - who cannot resist a vibrant celebration. She is just as vibrant as this creation. Renowned for her eclectic hat collection and bold steampunk costumes, she has a lifelong passion for unique yarns and textures. Party Hat blends her favorite fibers into a joyous tribute of her 70th birthday. Time to celebrate!
Medium: Fiber: unique yarns, rope, feather boas, metal framework
Dimensions: 19" in Diameter x 10"
Year Completed: 2025
Yarns About Life - Party Hat
COMING SOON
A celebration of living vibrantly and the pure joy found in playing dress-up. This piece invites you to step away from the everyday and immerse yourself in a textured world of wonder and imagination.
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White Water
Surrendering to the River's Pulse
A visual meditation on a day spent amidst the roiling currents with lifelong friends - mothers who, three decades ago, first stepped into the shared boat of parenthood. This work traces the exhilarating spray of new beginnings and the steady, deep glides of our collective history. Through intricate coils and repurposed silk, it honors the women who have navigated every rapid by my side.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, chicken wire, repurposed silk, metal ring
Dimensions: 20" diameter x 4"
Year Completed: 2025
Details of White Water and the Trip that Inspired It
Yarns About Life - White Water
COMING SOON - Friendships that Kept Me Afloat
They say if you grip the paddle too tight, you lose the rhythm of the water. Thirty years ago, we were first-time mothers learning to navigate a different kind of rapid.
White Water memories that coil into fiber - the sharp intake of breath before the drop, and the collective surge of joy when you pop back up- paddle in hand after going under and getting drenched. It is an exploration of trust: trusting the boat, the river, and the sisters in the seats beside you. In these knots, I have captured the spray of the falls and the enduring strength of a bond that refuses to be swept away. We are still in the same boat, and the current is beautiful.
Seasons: Spring & Summer
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The bloom of birth and growth
Seasons: Spring & Summer trace my journey as a mother. Like Mother Earth, I’ve experienced the urgent beauty of new buds pushing out and flowering to their full potential. A homage to my own becoming—through joy, worry, hard‑won patience, fierce protection, and love—and to my child’s emergence into adulthood. Here, the circular pathways of mind, body, spirit, and purpose coil together in the vivid shades of motherhood from both the intertwined and inseparable perspectives of mother and child.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, wool roving, chicken wire, repurposed motorcycle rim
Dimensions: 23" diameter x 7"
Year Completed: 2025
Companion to Seasons: Fall & Winter
Details of Seasons: Spring & Summer
Yarns About Life - Seasons: Spring & Summer
COMING SOON
Twists and turns, vivid shapes and colors, small details that mean so much in the circular, seasonal nature of motherhood. Moments that arrive as pure gifts. Looking back, I’m awestruck by the blooming nature that occurs in such a short span of time - from birth to manhood and the impacts motherhood has on all aspects of life.
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Seasons: Fall & Winter
The leaves have fallen
Seasons: Fall & Winter—when the leaves have fallen and children grow into adulthood and independence. Fall & Winter mark a time of letting go, as mothers and their children face new realities. Purpose is shifting and evolving. The snows are coming: a quiet season to imagine new possibilities and the growth that will rise after the thaw. Greens turn to rust. The landscape of many‑hued possibilities is briefly hidden from view, but the heart knows it is only a season before a new spirit pushes to the surface.
Medium: Fiber: yarns, rope, wool roving, chicken wire, repurposed motorcycle rim
Dimensions: 23" diameter x 7"
Year Completed: 2025
Companion to Seasons: Spring & Summer
Details of Seasons: Fall & Winter
Yarns About Life - Seasons: Fall & Winter
COMING SOON
The leaves have separated from the trees. So many emotions are coiled together when it is time for mothers and children to part ways and begin to grow in new directions for the remainder of life's journey.
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