Art in the Heart of Winchester

This lovely show is run by the same organization that brings you Kidstock, an amazing hands-on theater program for young children. For one week, the theater's lobby becomes an exquisite gift shop. All the items for sale are made locally.

This year, each artist will work on-site for one shift. If you stop by Friday 2-4, you can come watch me make the fabric collages which become the basis for my portable art series.

What with gallery sitting and teaching I look forward to the time to work, even if it's in public!

Holiday Work

 With the arrival of November comes a slew of holiday sales. 

When I am not teaching, I am in my studio, making bags and portable art.

 The wee bags are bigger this year. 

Larger, cheerful clutch bags are happening too.

 

I love the upcycled mix of store-bought and hand-printed fabric.

  

 Here is the start of this year's Portable Art collection:

small fabric collages mounted on cradled board and glazed with medium.

For first choice, come to Western Avenue Open Studios  

this Saturday, November 5. 

But come visit me in studio 512 first, since I have to leave early.

I'll be in Studio 512 from noon to 3 PM. 

Monday November 6,  find me at the Quilter's Connection Holiday Boutique,

at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, in Watertown,  6-8:30PM. 

learning

 

It is good now and then to put on student shoes and take oneself to a new place.  

Two weeks ago, I joined  Linda Germain at her Haverhill studio for a day of gelatin printing on paper. I learned that printing on paper is a whole different animal from fabric work.

Each student got a private table, with plenty of room for a large palette, a gelatin plate,  multiple brayers,  and piles of paper. We had free reign with  supplies: stencils, found objects, stamps, paints and papers, even a moldy gelatin plate.

I felt continually surprised and sometimes frustrated. Still, each print suggested another.  

I came home with an armload of attempts and a brain on fire with ideas. 

I was so tired, I went to bed at 8 but I saw gelatin prints all night in my dreams.  

So now what?  Frame? Make books? Work back into them? 

Tear them up and collage? Or print some more?