The Images of Mom's Laugh

Paintings below are available for preservation. Please contact the artist if you are interested in purchasing one of these memories and donating to the AFTD. Please check back soon as paintings are added on an ongoing basis.

If you would like to purchase a destroyed image and its accompanying DVD, please visit the Lost page.

About the painting process

Each painting begins as a drawing from a photograph or as the photograph itself. The painting is built up slowly with layers of acrylic medium and thin layers of acrylic paint on a panel or stretched canvas. The final effect reflects how memories resurface with clear and blurry areas intermingling.

You can click on a painting to zoom in and find details about it. Please check back often as new paintings will be added frequently.

About our project

The Mom's Laugh series was established to safe-keep our mother's memories, personality and stories from the effects of frontotemporal degeneration, or FTD. Each painting depicts an image from her life and passions. When the date in the title arrives and the painting is not sold, the artwork is destroyed like the destruction progressive dementia has on both individuals and their families.

With the Mom's Laugh Project you have a chance to preserve the artwork and in effect the memory it represents!  Additionally, 20% of all sales benefits the Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration; thus, by buying a piece of art, you are also helping to find a cure and to assist many families and individuals affected by this disease.

To preserve a painting, please contact us or attend our next event.