Hello you all! My studio is a buzzing beehive of activity getting ready for Paradise City in two weeks. Today, rather than many brooches, here are three necklaces to show you. For everything you see here, there are ten new things that will be at the show. Come say hello, booth 207. Paradise City Arts…
Category Archives: creative process
Lumeria: New Work, Summer 2012
As Santa Fe’s high season continues, and the blessed monsoons have come to cool and moisten the high desert, I’ve been getting deep into the creative process as I get work together for the Paradise City show in October. Cygnii 1 Brooch, polymer, acrylic, glass 2012 3.25″ x 1…
YinYang Creativity: 2nd Milagro Hacienda Retreat in October
Well hello you! You’re invited to this year’s 2nd Annual Milagro Hacienda Creativity Retreat. This year’s theme is YinYang::CreateGenerate. Simply- Jump into the heart of your artmaking. Come back up with gold. You know how you have these absolutely amazing ideas? and you can see them in your mind? but every time you try to…
Treasure Necklaces, Dancing, and You!
Ha! Artists live longer with clearer minds: just get out there and dance! This recent article from Stanford, based on a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, writes that “Frequent dancing apparently makes us smarter. A major study added to the growing evidence that stimulating one’s mind can ward off Alzheimer’s disease and…
Gloriously Moving Forward
Ready? Set? Here we go, bravely heading into 2012! You’ve been on my mind since last week. Many thoughtful, appreciative comments came in on The Realm of You. What an intelligent and capable group of people you are. Here’s part two: How to Gloriously Rule your Realm in 2012. Yes, this year will be turbulent….
Art-making, Wine-making and Your Life Now.
“We live on the leash of our senses” Diane Ackerman wrote, then added “There is no way to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.” Ready to become the artist of your own life? Deliberately re-engage with your senses, one by one. Consider: Everything you know and believe, all…
August update
Hello you! You’ve been much on my mind. August has been non-stop and the long post I want to write you is still several days away. But the turbulence everywhere, mixed with positive change appearing in with the breakdown of so much, triggered my short note to you. Amidst work for my local show, a…
Santa Fe Standards Necklace
Santa Fe Standards is a polymer necklace reflecting my experience in northern New Mexico. The finished necklace costs $720 and exhibited in August 2011 at my Souvenirs Show in Santa Fe. Santa Fe combines layers of culture and belief as varied and obdurate as the rocks that shape this area. Color, pageantry, enigmatic emblems, deep beliefs,…