Month: January 2018

I am in the process of designing and creating samples for my upcoming shows. I realized last week that I had 4 groups, but none of them really featured BLUE. I gave myself a few days to come up with a palette that balanced with the other color palettes that I had already done, and…

The joy of having a few minutes in the morning before I start work to make a little painting…

New beaded bead necklace in “Alchemy” palette, of mixed metals- 18″

I am about three weeks away from my East Coast Tour of Wholesale and Retail shows- ACRE Philadelphia (to the trade only) and ACC Baltimore (to the trade and to the public.) Here is my “Synapse” necklace- with 4 strands of beaded beads, beaded saucers, aventurine, pyrite, prehnite and recycled glass. It hangs at about…

I’m working on creating a body of work for my wholesale accounts- galleries, museum stores, boutiques. I enjoy making “groups” of colors and themes and then I create work that falls into these categories. This way each group is a “story” which is easy for a buyer to understand (necklaces, cuffs, and earrings all in…

Watercolor painting, printed papers, pen and ink on birch panel.

Layers of my drawings, watercolors, wrapping paper, Japanese papers and vellum on wood panel – 15″ high by 10.5″ wide.