Studio Journal

This year is going by too fast!  Not a great revelation, I know, but it's where my mind keeps going lately.  For the past week, I've been writing July instead of August--just can't believe we're in the 8th month of the year already! I have always felt like a turtle living in a jackrabbit world. … Continue reading Catching up….again

Failure is not a bad thing as long as you learn from it.

Hello all, There is an interview about me and my work on the Arts Business Institute website published today. Also, the upcoming issue of the NBO's Quarterly Review will have an article about my journey as a basketry artist. I'm very excited to have my work go out into the world in this way.  Many … Continue reading New Articles about my work

We all have so much going on in our lives and it’s hard to keep track/keep up with everything.  I have a spreadsheet with the different projects I’m working on, broken down into manageable steps to help me keep everything straight.  But, it seems every week a new challenge, project, or task arises and I … Continue reading Spinning plates and Spring’s horizon

I haven’t been very good about blogging regularly but I hope to do better this year. My goal is to write at least once a week.  We’ll see how that goes! I’ve been struggling with getting good images of the piece, Nascence.  It’s the largest piece I’ve ever done and I can’t get good perspective … Continue reading Happy New Year!

In each (person) is a spark able to kindle new fires of human progress, new light for the human spirit. …  When enough of these fires are burning, they create a new dawn of spiritual understanding; the flame of a great people is formed.  -– Charles A Lindbergh in Of Flight and Life   I … Continue reading The spark within us

Hello all, Yes, it's that time of year again--time for holiday shopping!!   I am having a sale on my website.  All available pieces are 20% OFF!!!   Just send me an email about the piece you'd like, and I will send you a PayPal invoice--you don't need a PayPal account to make a purchase. … Continue reading YEAR END SALE!!!

Well, this piece is now about 18” in diameter and I have only a few inches to go, but it’s still a long way from the end.  Around the 16.5” diameter mark, I had completed one half of the total linear inches for this piece.  Yes, when you’re coiling, the farther you go the longer … Continue reading Almost there!

My current piece, Nascence, is almost 13” in diameter now—15” on the convex side and about 1/3 finished if you are counting linear inches around each row.  [I have a little equation I use to estimate this] Here’s what it looks like now…. I’m much more conscious of time in the studio right now because … Continue reading The Issue of Time

In this blog, I’d like to talk about a number of things—art as contemplative practice, the joys and challenges of working in the fiber arts, using weaving and basketry techniques to create contemporary art.  Today, I thought I’d start with what I’m working on now.  This piece is one of three that started as a … Continue reading New Beginnings