So it’s not that I didn’t work last week, but one of my light bulbs let me down and bad light means bad pictures. So here is the last necklace I made mixing metal and polymer in purple, and a pair of earrings to match the first necklace made this way. Then I made little …
Inspirational breakdown
If there is one thing that every artist dreads but that happens to be inevitable, it’s the lack of inspiration. I’d like to say that in my case this is cyclical; about once a year I have an inspirational blackout. When this happens to me, no use getting to the studio table and trying to …
Clayathon 2020
Wow I am thrilled to be teaching for the first time at Clayathon next year. I will be in good company with dear friends and artists new to me: Kathleen Dustin, Lindly Haunani, Loretta Lam, Jeff Dever, Jana Roberts Benzon, Donna Greenberg and Helen Wyland-Malchow. The event is organized by Arlene Groch, thank you for …
Happy Holidays !
Merry Christmas to all ! In a few days the old grey man will bring a little happiness to all of us under the tree. To help him with this huge task and because ideas of gifts are sometimes hard to find… I offer you 25% discount on all my classes using the …
Did I miss the beginning of the school year?
Yup, I got carried away by the kitchen renovations, but I have a good excuse though. The renovation concerned new tiles on the floor, redoing the ceiling, new kitchen elements and a new cooking island, that didn’t exist, with electricity for the oven and the stove. Add to that the fact that the kitchen and …
A painting on your neck
Just before deciding to entirely redo our kitchen (by the way next time I have such an idea, please shoot me…) I had time to play with an idea (much more reasonable this time) that had been on my mind for a while. I had imagined a brooch that would look like some of the …
Almost ready
OMG things are going so fast! I feel like I came back home from Rome yesterday but I am leaving again next week. This time it will be for Maribor, Slovenia for the Art Trade event hosted by the delicious Mihaela Vindis. I will be honored to hold three workshops there. As soon as I …
Variable geometry?
It’s after seing a folded metal bracelet that I created the bracelet I will be teaching in Rome next February. The most difficult in this project was to find a baking support easy to make and use so that I could teach this. Later this bracelet led me to creating hollow geometrical earrings as well …
Evolution or revolution?
By nature, we are constantly evolving even though it is often barely perceptible. It reflects in our view of things that is no longer that of our teen age years, in the way we dress, behave, in our work… It shows up in a desire for a change of visual appearance, of home, of …
Elegant connections again…
Long before polymer clay, it was the painting that occupied my time. I did a lot of watercolors, then acrylics and some oil attempts. Essentially still lifes or landscapes. Modern Art? Not too much, until three or four years ago, walking in a wide known french decoration store. There I discover a canvas that left …