Collage:
I use handmade, painted, printed, and found papers to create layered compositions rich in color and texture. Each collage celebrates paper’s ability to hold a story—from its original source to the new life it takes on within the artwork.
My Studio, Collage, (48 x 66 x 2) $2992 Cardboard Series Wood posts for hanging are included.
Ikebana Series
Based on three principles of Japanese flower arranging and my desire to simplify my arrangements, garden and life.
Night Series
Still life set against a black background allow color, shape, and paper texture to emerge with boldness and clarity.
Cardboard Series
I love transforming an ordinary, often-discarded material into layered works filled with texture, dimension, and unexpected beauty. By cutting, shaping, painting, and stacking cardboard, I create depth and shadows that give each piece a sculptural presence.
City Series
My city series celebrates the architecture, energy, and character that make each place unique. The popularity of this series has led to commissions celebrating places that hold special meaning for my collectors.
Salon Pieces:
These individual works are inspired by materials, moments, and ideas that spark my curiosity.
A delightful focus on shapes in this painting that is not only fun and quirky but also promises to be a captivating source of conversations in your art collections. Each unique element invites viewers to engage, sparking curiosity and creative discussions about its vibrant forms and playful aesthetics.
9 x 9 x 1.5
Small, simple and colorful is sure to catch attention and create conversation. Collage on Wood panel in black wood floating frame
Need a view …. this painting provides this. The sunny day emerges in the background and warms a comfy room with plants, fish, a book and a well loved arm chair. Lots to explore here in this statement piece. And Yes it is a nod to artist Henri Matisse … another collagist who began this medium later in life when he was losing his sight.
36 x 36 x 1.5 unframed: 37 x 37 x 2 framed black metal floating Mixed Media. 2024
Currently Displayed at Steak and Vine in La Grange IL. Any purchased piece in the Chicago area will be delivered locally with in a week and hanging services will be provided for free.
Florist Table celebrates the quiet beauty of the everyday bouquet — a meeting place of texture, color, and form. Built from layers of handmade and eco-dyed papers, the work reflects my love of material and process. Torn edges, sheet music, and botanical prints intertwine to suggest a tabletop scene alive with rhythm and warmth.
The earthy palette — oranges, browns, and soft golds — evokes sunlight spilling across a workspace where flowers are gathered, arranged, and reimagined. Each vase, leaf, and shadow becomes part of a visual conversation between structure and spontaneity — a tribute to the artist’s table and the natural poetry found there.
36W x 24L x 1.5D unframed
38W x 26L x 1.5D Framed Black Frame
Original Piece of Art. 2023
A bold painting with lots of intricate cut work will make a statement on your wall showcasing a ‘one of a kind’ style of collage.
Collage Mixed Media with hand dyed papers from botanicals and hand-treated, painted, printed papers
24w x 24h x .78d Unframed
26w x 26h x 1.5d Framed Black Floating
Original Art
This piece combines the two mixed media techniques I use in my collages: Joomchi (paper-felting), , and collage. Mark making on Joomchi sails created with sewing machine.
18 x x 18 x .78 inches unframed
20 x 20 x .78 inches - gold frame
A unique piece layered to create depth, texture and interest.
Juxtaposition between colorful joomchi sails and monochromatic background. Tight background and loose sailboats
Ikebana 2 16w x 16h x 1.5d
Mixed Media Collage on Panel
Inspired by the quiet balance and intentionality of Japanese flower arranging, Ikebana 2 continues my exploration of simplicity through texture and form. Handmade and eco-dyed papers layer to form a serene composition—delicate blossoms emerge from a stone-like vessel, grounded by warm earthy tones and a single persimmon resting nearby. The restrained palette and asymmetrical rhythm evoke a calm, meditative space where nature and design coexist.
Ikebana One
16w x 20 h x 1.5 d
Mixed Media Collage on Paper
By Jan Reagan
Inspired by the Japanese art of flower arranging, Ikebana One celebrates simplicity, balance, and the quiet poetry of natural forms. Created using handmade and eco-dyed papers, this piece merges still life and abstraction—pairing delicate pressed florals with a grounded arrangement of persimmons on a warm earthen table. The composition reflects a mindful restraint learned from Ikebana practice, where every element breathes and each negative space carries meaning.
A study in harmony between texture, color, and calm energy, this work invites the viewer to pause and appreciate beauty in simplicity.
A unique image that I was able to sketch when the bridges went up after George Floyd was murdered and there was unrest in Chicago. Beauty amongst unrest.
This piece combines the three mixed media techniques I use in my collages: Joomchi (paper-felting), eco-dyed florals on paper, and collage. Mark making on Joomchi vases created with a sewing machine.
24 x 36 x 1.5 inches unframed
26 x 39 x 2 inches framed (black wood floating frame
A truly unique original piece has been meticulously layered to create an inviting sense of depth, texture, and captivating visual interest. Featuring ecodyed papers in vibrant hues of Brazilian Jasmine and Marigold, this artwork showcases a beautiful interplay of color. The vases are crafted using the traditional joomchi hand-felting technique, adding an element of handcrafted charm. The delightful combination of purple, pink, and yellow colors harmonizes beautifully, enhancing the overall aesthetic appeal of the composition. Completed in 2024.
Ikebana 3 (12 w x 12 h x 1.5 d)
Mixed Media on Paper
Ikebana 3 completes the series inspired by the Japanese art of flower arranging. Guided by principles of balance and simplicity, this piece continues my exploration of how shape and texture can suggest movement within stillness.
Created using foliage gathered from my own garden, it reflects a quiet dialogue between structure and spontaneity — between what’s placed with intention and what unfolds naturally. Soft colors and layered surfaces invite the viewer to pause and find calm in the open space between forms.
Midnight Supper (26 x 36 x 1) Collage
This piece invites you to slow down and notice the quiet poetry hiding in everyday moments. The soft blooms, the humble wild onions, even the simple meal become little acts of stillness—like the universe saying, “hey, look closer.” Against the deep, moody backdrop, the textures practically ask your eyes to linger, to trace the marks, to feel the rhythm of handmade paper and intentional imperfection.
As you take it in, the work becomes a mirror: What small, overlooked things in your own world deserve a second look? What beauty is sitting right in front of you, waiting for your attention?
It’s a gentle nudge—a reminder that even the simplest scenes can hold depth, comfort, and meaning when you show up fully to see them.
Pepper Fish 24w x 36h x 1d
Mixed Media Collage on Panel
“Pepper Fish” blends calm and chaos in one quirky still life. The glowing flowers, fiery peppers, and tiny, oblivious fish invite you to notice the mix of heat and softness in your own life. This piece asks: Where do you feel free, and where do you feel contained?
Tropical Table Top presents a layered cardboard collage that merges vivid color with deliberate construction. The fruit forms—papaya, avocado, dragon fruit, and plantains —are assembled through cut, painted, and collaged surfaces, creating depth and tactile variation across the composition. A saturated green ground anchors the work while emphasizing contrast and rhythm. Visible seams, torn edges, and painterly marks foreground process, transforming a familiar still life into a study of material, balance, and contemporary domestic imagery
Framed and ready to hang
This piece leans into the quiet drama of the everyday—where a simple arrangement becomes something almost cinematic. Hand-formed leaves stretch upward with a raw, sculptural presence, their veins exaggerated and alive, pushing against the deep, moody blue backdrop. The surface carries a tactile honesty—creases, imperfections, and layered fibers that refuse to be smoothed out.
The vase sits grounded yet slightly off-balance, holding the stems like a moment paused mid-breath. Below, the oranges—imperfect, textured, sun-warmed—anchor the composition with a pulse of warmth against the cool field above.
What makes this piece so unique:
The vase and oranges are made from papers created by the artist using recycled materials - think junk mail.
The plant is make from cardboard and cut so it lifts of the wood cradle and self shadows.
The background is Lotka Paper from Nepal and Mulberry Paper treated with Konnyaku powder.
Island Still Life explores color, weight, and construction through layered cardboard collage. The central form is built outward from the surface, creating a tactile presence that blurs the line between painting and low relief. Saturated reds, yellows, and greens establish a charged but balanced composition, while exposed edges and irregular textures reveal the hand and the process behind the work. Framed in white, the piece contrasts refined presentation with raw materiality, inviting close inspection and sustained viewing.
Framed and ready to hang
If you have explored Paris, this piece will allow you to explore again and again and again. Lots to look at from landmarks to the essence of the best of Paris streets. A statement piece that creates travel conversations and more.
Commissions available upon request
Sunflowers, Clay Vase radiates warmth and joy — a celebration of nature’s bold simplicity. Built from hand-dyed and eco-printed papers, the collage layers texture and tone to capture the golden vitality of sunflowers against an earthy green ground.
The deep clay vase anchors the composition, its organic patterns echoing the rhythms of the natural world. Each torn edge and hand-formed petal reflects my ongoing fascination with paper as both surface and subject — a medium that carries its own quiet memory of nature.
This piece invites the viewer to feel sunlight, texture, and time — a moment of still life that hums with life itself.
Natural Frame: 26w x 38h x 1 d
Photos by Wenc Photography
Medium: Collage Mixed Media, eco -dyed left to right: Euclyptus, Onion Skin, Rose of Sharon on Paper.
Collage on Wood Panel
24 x 36 x .78 unframed
25 x 37 x 1” black metal floating frame.
Usually my paintings are full of color! This painting is in black, off-white and gold papers. It’s modeled after my studio which overlooks my garden with a big bay window. With this limited palette, I played with form …. note the table legs, bottle and vases. I played with the shapes of the plants and flowers while pushing and pulling pieces back and forth through shading.
Currently Showing: Finished January 2024
Original Piece of Art.
Still Life with Mangos
Description
Still Life with Mangos reinterprets a familiar tabletop scene through layered cardboard collage and painterly mark-making. The bowl and fruit are built outward from the surface, creating a subtle sculptural presence that shifts with light and shadow. Saturated color, exposed edges, and visible construction emphasize process while grounding the composition in balance and restraint. The work invites slow looking—where everyday objects become studies in form, weight, and quiet abundance.
Framed and ready to hang
48h × 66w x 2 d
Mixed media collage
This mixed media collage turns everyday materials into a cozy, lived-in scene with real depth and attitude. Built from layered cardboard, the forms physically rise off the surface, creating a subtle 3D effect that pulls the viewer in. Wood veneers anchor the composition as a warm, textured “floor,” grounding the space and adding an architectural feel.
Cut and shaped paper elements form the plants, vessels, and tabletop objects, each piece carefully layered to cast natural shadows and create visual movement. The materials stay honest—edges, seams, and textures are visible—celebrating process over perfection. It feels domestic, playful, and a little poetic, like a quiet moment frozen mid-breath. Low-key humble materials, high-key presence.
Two grommets in this piece for easy hanging