Using mainly watercolor and oil paints, Bley aims to communicate my passion for Place. This encompasses not just items or objects found at a place, but the feelings and memories that a place evokes, the history of a place, and often the flora and fauna of a location. Working from her studio on the family farm she shares with her husband and six children, she studies and forages for ideas, memories and plant and flower specimens from a location to use in her watercolor collages and oil paintings. Plants and flowers are pressed to add to painted watercolors recording not just the feelings and impressions of a place, but the specific botany at one moment in time.