Portfolio of Works

My commissioned portrait work can be seen at: www.portraitartist.com/erickson.

Included here is a selection of  studies from life and other portraits or figures not shown on that site.

This selection will change as I do demos, experiment, and study from life.   

Plein air and studio paintings done while living on Caddo Lake  in Harrison County Texas from 2004 - 2008 or derived from reference paintings or photos taken at that time.

This is a sampling of  landscape paintings, mostly plein air, done over the years.   New work will be displayed periodically.

My love of horses began when I was a just a young girl living in California.

I took lessons at the Grandona Ranch in Merced and then began working in the stables and showing their quarter horses.

Later, I owned a quarterhorse/thoroughbred bay mare named: Cupcake.

When I moved to Idaho, because of my military father's transfer, I was the owner of a buckskin quarterhorse mare named: Buckwheat.

When I left for college, my riding days ended, but my love for horses has never ended.  I now express it with drawing and painting this magnificent animal.

Still life is a wonderful format for studying painting and composition.  I began my  painting career with still life and still enjoy doing them.

It isn't so much about the objects painted as it is about the movement of light over the forms and personal symbolism that may be in

the composition.   At times the inspiration is the beauty of a bouguet given as a gift, memorabilia from the past,  or and idea that can be expressed with a certain collection of objects and textures.  The possibilities are endless.