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Ivory Owl Necklace
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012Stone art
Monday, June 11th, 2012Another place to see my jewelry if you are local.
Monday, May 21st, 2012I now have my jewelry at Art on Main, in Bristol, Vt. (A nice mountain town with cool people.) I’ve been working hard to get a good sized lump of jewelry to submit. They are carrying several of the ivory pieces. If you are in the area, go check it out!
Soon, I will also have jewelry in the gift shop at Basin Harbor Club.
I’m spreading myself thin these days. Gardening, making art and jewelry in the beloved studio space here. The Kestrels are nesting over my head in the rafters, the chickens are happy and roaming about, butterflies and bees are active…. life is so sweet.
Cow 5″x7″ acrylic on canvas
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Detail of ship in a mural.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010Another view of the mural going up a stairway in the formal entry.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010An Early American Rufus Porter style mural in a formal entryway.
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010oops, accident…..
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010I had an unfortunate accident while at work on the last day of April. I fell 12′ from a ladder and broke my wrist and radius. I have had surgery, with a titanium plate and screws put in to stabilize the broken bones. The doctor says it could take 3-9 mos. before I am able to lift something heavier than a paperback book. This is a trying time for me, but I feel lucky the injuries were not worse. I am alive, too!!!
So….. I am on a healing path. I still have my dominant hand to funnel my creative ideas through. It’s ironic that this injury has nudged me to focus on doing what I love. Art! I will probably never go back to my interior painting job. I will do murals when I have healed enough, and other decorative finishes. Check out the new pics I have posted.
If any one reading this once thought about purchasing something from my website, but just didn’t get around to it for whatever reason, please reconsider. I am offering some discounts to get some pieces moving to support myself as I heal these bones. Email me and we can figure the cost breaks.
Learning to “see”
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010After I spend a day in my studio working on a painting, I tend to “see” things in a more critical way. I notice how light falls on an object. I look at how different elements affect one another… like dew pooling on leaves and rain breaking the surface of a body of water, light laying down on rocks. Or the way a Heron cups its wings and brings its gangly body so gracefully to a perch, weightlessly.
Vision is an amazing gift we all take for granted. We see everyday things that we really don’t give our attention to. Like a grand old tree on the side of a road we pass by on our way to some other place each day. Sometimes I stop and investigate. I am always glad I did, no matter how late it makes me for my destination.
All of my life I have looked at things up close. Nature is a mystery that has hooked me and I can’t get enough of it. It makes me travel slowly through life.
I’m working on a series of nests and eggs. When discovering a nest with eggs, I feel the sacredness of its contents. A home. A family. Something is growing. Something is being protected.
mannequin heads
Monday, March 22nd, 2010I have been painting mannequin heads and selling them for display models for boutiques and jewelry stores. I buy the blanks, which are fiberglass reinforced plastic, and doll them up. This one measures 17″ high. Circumference of head is 20.5″. Each one is different. This gal has a pale blue-green dress with a v-bodice. She has long dark brown hair, blue eyeshadow, with both painted on and fake eyelashes. She has holes in her ears and can wear earrings.
These mannequins are perfect for any dress shop or private boudoir and can display earrings, necklaces, hats or scarves.
photo of Pitcher and Pears
Monday, March 22nd, 2010I’ve got a blog!!
Sunday, March 21st, 2010Welcome to my blog! Suppose I should say what I am up to…
Today I am putting varnish coats on “Pitcher and Pears”, which no one has seen yet. Will have it available to view soon.