April 2014 Common Thread Give-a-way
It’s time for the Common Thread Give-a-way again and just in time for Easter! This time I’m the featured artist and I am offering an Easter-themed photo collage I call “Easter Bunny.” It’s always fun...
View ArticleBike Path
The thing about paths is you never know where they might lead. Who knew that when I finally mustered up my courage last year and got back up on a bicycle after 30 years off that less than 10 months...
View ArticleSomething New
Over the last year my photographs have been chosen for two Healing with Arts shows at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at DHMC in Lebanon, N.H. At the last show a fellow artist told me about a four-week...
View ArticleChildhood Moments
Dancers at The Artist’s Childhood Exhibit, Rose Street Gallery The three dancers skipped over the hardwood floor of the gallery, pretending to catch fireflies. They reenacted childhood, creating...
View ArticleEvolution of an Art Project
My digital collages are frequently works in progress. While the initial digital aspects of the collage don’t often take long to create, it frequently takes me awhile to get to the sewing and drawing...
View ArticleMoon Child Encaustic
Here’s my first official encaustic painting. I say first official because the other encaustic works I have done all prominently featured wax-dipped collages. This does too, but at the base of the work...
View ArticleIt All Starts with the Children
It was a busy weekend. On Saturday I attended an Open House at author Jon Katz’s Bedlam Farm. Sunday, my niece Ellie came down and we went for a hayride at a local pumpkin farm where we got to choose...
View ArticleOnce and Future Things: An Exploration of Girlhood
Next month, November 7th through December 3rd, my digital collages will be hung in my first-ever solo show at Radio Bean in Burlington, Vt. The opening reception will be on November 13th from 5 to 7...
View ArticleEllie Saves the Day or My Tribute to Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner, Me, Chris and Leonard Nimoy I just finished googling “Everest Paw Patrol Action Figure” because my three-year-old niece Ellie is obsessed with the show. Earlier this year I ordered all...
View ArticleJournal Jam
My sister-in-law Gretchin and I are putting together a series of joint art and writing prompt classes that we are calling Journal Jam. We will be announcing the location of the first workshop shortly....
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