Peacock and Lily Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. […]
Kidz Aartz I 2009 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan It has been my great pleasure for the last five summers to share some personal universe creating with groups of kids who come to my studio to make art. We usually prepare creative […]
So very much has been consuming my energies for the last few weeks I have been sadly neglectful of this blog. A wonderful Kidz Aartz group spent a week with me making clay wind chimes & pins and acrylic paintings. A boy and his rat… Acrylic painting I've been working on the new website, which […]
Clay is about texture. Diva of the eclipse #4 One of the commisions. Have been watching my clay texture scraps while working on the sculpture commissions. They are all slightly different in expression and gesture. The feet are fun to do too. There is always a new quality to enjoy. Trying to look at things […]
Clay is about texture. Diva of the eclipse #4 One of the commisions. Have been watching my clay texture scraps while working on the sculpture commissions. They are all slightly different in expression and gesture. The feet are fun to do too. There is always a new quality to enjoy. Trying to look at things […]
Study in White It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.-Romain Rolland I am yearning to be in a warm place, even though skiing in our sun-drenched Vermont woods was lovely today. So I am painting sunflowers, continuing with the triptych that I have already begun. This morning I poured layers […]
Study in White It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.-Romain Rolland I am yearning to be in a warm place, even though skiing in our sun-drenched Vermont woods was lovely today. So I am painting sunflowers, continuing with the triptych that I have already begun. This morning I poured layers […]
Sunflower-night-sky “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" Tolstoy Here's the beginning- well, far from the beginning actually, but the first view that has any detail that can be discerned… At least I hope the petals of some of the sunflowers are visible. It's a triptych measuring 30" x 54" and is a […]
Sunflower-night-sky “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time" Tolstoy Here's the beginning- well, far from the beginning actually, but the first view that has any detail that can be discerned… At least I hope the petals of some of the sunflowers are visible. It's a triptych measuring 30" x 54" and is a […]