2018 July Paradise Studio Artist Collective
Wailoa Center Show, Hilo, Hawaii
A pleasant surprise was my artwork featured for the newspaper article for the month long show. We had 20 artists, each one featuring from a couple pieces to a dozen. Our group has been doing a December 2-day open studio tour for 11 years and has had varied group shows. We give 10% off all sales to the three local high school art departments in our Puna District and have donated over $12,000.00 towards art supplies.
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The sculpture pictured stands 32" high, titled Sailing Colors, made of hand-painted silk covering aluminum so I could bend and curve it to resemble sail shapes. The nu-gold metal is hand formed and forged. The 3" deep base is Lychee wood.
2018 July 3-day Workshop:
Bamboo, From Harvest to Hand
A terrific event where I learned so much and had a great time at the Donkey Mill Art Center in Kona, the other side of the Big Island of Hawaii where I live. Here's one of the flower wall vessels I made.
Seattle instructor Charissa Brock taught a fun and hugely informative course. Her work is exquisitely detailed and fantastically abstract.
My husband Scott and I have been growing a variety of clumping bamboo for nearly 2 decades now. Some is beautifully weeping, some with very large thorns, others with very large leaves. In December this year for the studio tour, I'll have more bamboo artworks completed. I've used a little bit in sculpture over the years. Need time to cure some of the culms before using first. Ideas floating around already.
2017 October Minnesota Trip - Fashion Show/Teaching at Textile Center
2017 February Zonta Fashion Frenzy
- Runway Show features Colors of Life Collection of 10
- Dine Like a Diva features collection of 3
Here's one of the first pieces I made titled Imagination At Play. The small metal pieces hanging from the hand-painted silks covering wires in the work were samples made in the workshop. The art piece is like a jelly fish, moving and changing as the tides change.
I'm excited about potential with metal.
Have since made a collection of earrings using the techniques and various wall sculpture and hanging mobile.
And I really like hammering! The evolution of a piece from a flat sheet of metal is quite technical. To get the metal to do what I've drawn on a piece of paper, has simplicity being each blow of the hammer, yet very challenging to figure how to and with what hammer and stake to use to get the desired effect.
2015 December Paradise Studio Art Tour
9th year my studio is open to the public.
