My Work: Mobiles, Bead Hangings, Sculptures
Here’s a selection of my work produced since 2014. I use a wide variety of media, primarily relying on found and donated materials (as in “Nova, here’s a baggie full of my old unused jewelry, one-off earrings, and so on”). Please note: Covid Juggler is being offered as a fundraiser for our essential farm workers here in Ventura County who are especially impacted by Covid. Thank you! If you see something you like, please contact me at NovaClite.artist@gmail.com!
Covid Juggler – close up
Found materials, wire, beads.
Photographs by Harper Point Photography, Ventura www.harperpoint.com

Fire in the Canyon, 2016
Drift wood, glass beads
17 x 41 in (43 x 104 cm) $350
A prescient piece completed one month before the Thomas Fire scorched Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Disruption, 2020
Drift wood, glass & hematite beads
24 x 52 in (61 x 132 cm) $2,500
Mo’s Piece, 2017
Commission (private collection)
28 x 46 in (71 x 117 cm)
Green Energy Goddess
Ceramic sculpture, reclaimed wire, beads
5 x 12 in (13 x 31 cm) (in private collection)
Stepping Off
Found materials, 2019
17 in (43 cm) diameter, $350 3rd Place winner. 10/2019 Ventura County Arts Council show. Judge’s comment: “This piece is both elegant and restrained at the same time – exquisite in its simplicity. Using only two found ‘masculine’ industrial discards, the artist has successfully represented the ‘feminine’ contained by the circle – a symbol of the goddess, the indirect, Mother Earth…And yet in its minimalism this sculptural drawing is not static as the circle is dynamically misshapen and the figure gracefully ‘steps off’ of it
into our space.”
…and the point is?
Found objects, glass beads, crystal
(in private collection)
Clostridium tetani (Tetanus) 2019
Found/repurposed materials, beads
8 x 40 in (20 x 102 cm) $175 Rusty nails! What did your mother tell you?
So I thought while composing this piece. Includes carved bone and seed beads, and yes, a skull…
Shinto Gate – Rain on Lake (2019)
Glass and labradorite beads, redwood branch
14 x 36″ ( 36 x 91 cm) (in private collection) Beautiful clear faceted beads rain down from dark clouds, splashing into a sparkling lake. Suspended from a branch recovered from a local redwood tree burned in the Thomas Fire, the piece offers a
Shinto Gate to tranquility.
Drinking, smashing bottles, and drunk driving is a long-standing tradition in Grant Park, a favorite local gathering place in the hills above Ventura’s downtown. As I regularly walk In Grant Park, it’s hard not to see the discarded beer cans, broken bottles, and tell tale signs of accidents. I began collecting broken glass and car wreck debris from the Park as a cleanup action, but was inspired to create this art work to express my feelings and explore the act and aftermath of: DrinkSmashDriveCrash.
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