artist at play
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Pack Rat
I confess I’m a little bit of a pack rat. No sooner do I write those words than I head to a dictionary for the actual definition of a pack rat and the difference between a pack rat and a hoarder. pack rat: a person who collects or keeps things that are not needed. Well,… Continue reading
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I Ask You
In 2014, I shared the website of artist Ann Marquis with my friend Sylvia who said, Ask her if she’d do a workshop with us and then, before I could even blink, asked Ann herself. Long story short, Ann boarded a plane in NM, I boarded one in MA, and we joined Sylvia at her… Continue reading
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Green Thumb
We have extensive magnificent lush flower gardens, with select veggies intermixed, gracing our property in all directions during growing season every year … which are 99.9% in the wonderfully capable care of my husband Dave’s green thumb. I do occasional weeding. Indoors, the drill is as follows. I tend most of our houseplants. I give… Continue reading
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Noticing
A short enumeration of factors that caught my notice and led to the creation this CutUp: • an idea garnered from something I saw on my Instagram feed some weeks ago, plus • a piece of watercolor paper from a large pad given to me by friends who purchased their retirement home from an artist… Continue reading
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So Little, and So Much
LOL: How can so little a bit of artistic real estate and so simple a concept as an arrangement of a few cut-out circles of color challenge me so much? Couldn’t tell ya, but that was my story here. In the end, though, once again: magic! En route, I’d collaged a strip of text in… Continue reading
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Off to the Races
Countless process questions and what-if’s roared off as I worked on this piece. what shapes?what color palette?portrait or landscape?what level of detail?how to create contrast?how to create balance?how much reliable pattern?how to disrupt pattern?how to move the eye around?what marking tools?how to respond to ‘mistakes’?text collage or not? In the end, I opted to include… Continue reading
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Magic
When I woke up last Saturday, the CutUp featured here didn’t exist. I had a studio with art supplies and a loose intention to weave into my day, if possible, the creation a new CutUp. By Saturday’s end, a new CutUp! The seeming magic of going from ‘nothing’ to ‘something’ never gets old. I feel… Continue reading
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Mindful Meandering
While I paint and collage and create, the primary gift is presence, being here and now. In large measure, especially as I get increasingly pulled into any one particular creative undertaking, I do not think with verbal language at all but engage wordlessly with the sensory processing of and physical interaction with my emerging art… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.
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