Inaugeral Post!

Several years ago, a client asked me to keep her posted on what I was doing and creating.  It took me a while to cogitate on this and come up with a solution - a BLOG!!  I thoroughly enjoy this format and hope that you will, too.  If you got this, you are a past or present client, art buddy, relative or friend.  That about covers it, doesn't it?  If you would rather not receive my post notices, just drop me an email and I'll remove you from my mailing list.

I am so far behind in letting people know what I'm up to, that I hardly know where to begin.  So in my first post, I think I'll just go back one year to when I started creating a completely different kind of fiber art based on photography.  The following are samples of what I can do now:

This piece, entitled "Fire in the Belly of Winter" (33" x 39"), is created from winter photographs of Valley County that I printed on fabric and collaged.  It is offered for sale through Acorn Gallery in Idyllwild, California www.acorngalleryidyllwild.com

I received three commissions last spring to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Seven Devil's Playwright's Conference www.idtheater.org; one piece for each of the three directors of the conference.  This is not a great photograph (I was in a hurry - no excuse, I know, but true), but gives an idea of what I can do with many photographs in a collage format. 

Last one!  This client saw "Fire in the Belly" (33" x 39") and wanted a similar piece done featuring her home in McCall and familiar McCall summer scenes.  I took the photographs and printed them on fabric using archival quality inks. 

Printing photographs on fabric takes my art in a new direction and I expect I will be doing much more of this and expanding on the idea by...  printing photos on sheer overlays, scrim, silk, anything I want!

Okay!  Thanks for reading this - as I catch up, my blogs will be shorter (promise).  Off to run town errands and then - my reward - to the studio!  Best of the day to you!