I have the good fortune to have my work hung with two other artists, a ceramicist and a painter, for a group show entitled Broken Color. You’ll be treated to ceramics by Bobbie Altman and paintings by Heather Robinson. Broken Color Group Show will be on view September 1st – October 31st, 2015 Creative […]
Black Oak
Happy Creative New Year
My last posting was on Christmas Day. From there daily events took over and I missed my usual schedule of posting. It happens. I’m over it. I’m on to the new year now. I know it’s official because I just took the first images of 2015 and created a folder for them. Here is a […]
Rain and Quilting
These two are a natural — rain and quilting. Here in Northern California we’re well into our worst drought on record so we’re especially happy to see the rain. Everything in the garden looks hopeful with a clean face. Click on an image for a larger view. And while the garden was getting a bath, […]
Black Oak II Done
Black Oak II, the companion piece to Black Oak which is in progress, is done. Click on the image for a larger view. I tend to quilt every inch of background on my art quilts, but for this 12″ x 12″ art quilt, that didn’t feel like the way to proceed. I kept hearing ‘simplicity’ in […]
Black Oak
I’m still working on my Native California plant series. I completed the top for Black Oak which will finish about 26″ x 60″. I really enjoyed putting this one together using some of my ‘radiator series’ fabric created in Lonni Rossi’s surface design class at Asilomar, some rust fabric experiments and some sun prints. Once […]
Sketching
Last week I snipped a couple small branches of my friend’s black oak tree to do some sun printing. The black oak is a native California tree and will fit nicely with the art quilt series I’m working on. I am quite taken with the shape of the leaf. It has so much character and […]
