(2023-Present)  My newest series, Play Space, explores the concept of birds at play. Lightweight and aloft, birds interact with shapes floating across the surface in spacious, minimal works. Growing up around birds, I observed their playfulness up close. Scientists have observed how various species of birds love to play with bits of string or paper scraps. I hope this series inspires us to choose simplicity and balance with nature for the benefit of all.

Play Space

(2019-Present)  This series, "The Rise and Fall," explores modernism and how the rise and fall of viewpoints over time changes our relationship with nature. I hope this series inspires us to choose simplicity and balance with nature as an important part of our lives.

The Rise and Fall

(2009-2014)  This mixed media series named “Vintage Ladies” celebrated all women and their relationship with the beauty of nature. These works are collage-paintings employing hand-drawn elements, scraps of vintage ephemera and acrylic painting layered and adhered onto canvas or paper. Vintage toile ornament combined with modern technology merge old and new in a fresh, contemporary take on modernism.

Vintage Ladies

(2016-2019)  This series asks the question– what if we were all gone, but our possessions remained? Perhaps they would wind up washing ashore at low tide, with birds foraging them. All of our possessions and memories are part of the perpetual cycle of life found throughout nature. No where is this more evident than at the waterfront in tide pools along beaches, and other water ecosystems where decay and regeneration occur vividly.

Lauren Matsumoto