Love You to Death is featured on the October 2009 cover of the American Journal of Nursing.

About Love You to Death

I left pediatric intensive care and transitioned to adult outpatient oncology nursing following my treatment for cancer. I wanted to be an artist. The change provided me with the extra time and energy needed to make art.

I was dating a pharmacist I worked with at the hospital. Things were getting serious between us. I worried about marriage.  Would it interfere with my freedom to make art?

At the clinic, I met an elderly couple married over fifty years. They came several times a week for the wife’s treatment. Towards the end of her life, she often arrived confused and disoriented. Her husband was her caretaker and a diabetic. He sat in the bedside chair, tickling her polished toes during her infusions. One day, she arrived particularly obtunded. I was surprised when, out of her stupor, she called for a nurse. She told me her husband was in trouble and to check his blood sugar. Slumped in the chair, his sugar was low. He revived on orange juice and crackers with peanut butter.

I made Love You to Death with this story in mind. I learned that if I am lucky to live long enough, in a happy marriage, I could experience something deeper than love: devotion.

I married the pharmacist.

A  limited edition of 200, signed, giclee prints of the painting, Love You to Death is available. The print measures 17″ x 22″, with an image size of 14″ x 20″ (this creates margins for matting), and is professionally printed in Oregon on premium quality, archival paper with archival inks. Prints are hand-fed individually through the printer, and each one is proofed, numbered, and signed by the artist.

One customer’s comment about Love You to Death:

I ordered and just received “Love you to Death!” Can’t wait to get it framed and slap it on an appropriate wall in just the perfect spot! I was meant to see “Love you to Death”. Kudos to you for following your dreams and enchanting me with your creativity.

I am a Critical Care Nurse and have finally grown to love it. It was not love at first sight. It wasn’t the nursing I didn’t love, it’s that I gave up my childhood dream to do it. I was a thoroughbred racehorse jockey for over 10 years. Giving that up was the hardest thing I have ever done.

Your work speaks to the part of me that still likes to exist “outside the box.”

• Limited Edition Giclee print of  I Love You to Death  $110 USD*

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A smaller, unlimited edition of Love You to Death is also available. Each is professionally printed in Oregon on high quality, archival paper, with archival pigmented inks, and hand fed through the printer. Every print is proofed and signed by the artist. The page size is 8 1/2″ x 11″. The image measures 7″ x 9 1/2″, leaving a border for matting. This print is offered for $45, which includes shipping and handling. To purchase, click on the PayPal button below.

Small giclee print of Love You to Death  $45.00 USD*

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