gift for grandchild

Baby Moccasins, smoke tanned hide.

Childs Colorful Play Teepee

 Pictures cut from retro fabrics.

 Applique blue rainbow, min-pin and pug. accents of antique rickrack and ribbons

 Sheer fabric stars and circles, a fun way to allow light to enter.

  Door flaps lined with rainbows and zebras held open with antique buttons.

 Fabric sleeves to encase poles holding them in place.

Topped with a double sided flag, red on one side rainbow material on other side with antique ribbons hanging from the tip.

A Mothers Love

A Mothers Love

mixed media, 8x8 in

Antique buttons, metal decorations, silver hearts, glass shell, grain., graphite drawing.

A piece about Love and Protection and the staples in life.

Seek Peace

Seek Peace Meditation Prayer 

36x12.5 in 
$229.00

“Depart from evil and do good; Seek Peace and pursue it” Palms 34:14

A prayer for all human-kind to pick up the key to the heart, behold the grace and power of love and joy and peace.

“Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I” Sutta Nipata

Digital painting of archangel pigment printed onto quilters cotton and coated with acrylic gel. Varied fabrics, antique buttons, metal ribbon, stones, tassels and various adornments.

Silver and Gold

"Silver Meditation"     "Golden Meditation" 

50"x9"                   35"x8"

$159.00                  $159.00
Textile hanging; varied fabric, metal ribbons, fabric ribbons, antique buttons, mesh and tassels.

"Alberta Approved"

Juried into "In The Red creation from defict" now showing at Alberta Craft Council Edmonton

“Alberta Approved”

Our wise Great Horned Owl sad to say is presently all tied up in red wool, and not to keep warm through our cold winters. Ironically our provincial bird is bound before the slogan “Freedom To Create, Spirit To Achieve” which sport Alberta’s Blue and Gold colors of expanse. The red wool travels downward to stitch into the butt pocket of partial jeans shaken upside-down revealing a discarded open-ended red mesh plastic bag which can safely hold nothing, yet its pinned in place by a safety pin sporting a red plastic button. Due financial cutbacks I had to skimp on the hanging device and recycle an old red-plastic-coated hanger destined for the recycle bin.The title “Alberta Approved” is derived from the blue poultry pin which is attached onto off-cut fabric edging on which “RED” is printed.

“Alberta Approved” incorporates the craft of photography, textiles and digital art using materials bought, found and recycled. The owl image is combined photography and digital art pigment printed on quilters fabric and sealed with a coat of acrylic gel.

Do cutbacks hinder? A resounding YES as some galleries try to keep events pinned together and others renege on Carfac fees to keep going. Traveling art shows cancelled and artists canceling shows due lack in funding effects all society. How do I feel about the cuts; ask the owl!

Retablo; Life Preserver, 2010

Image of water flowing across rock that was copied, flipped, copied flipped again to create the pattern for the closed doors of the Retablo below.

 Doors closed, work in progress shot, top part with tree of life not completed.

 Surprise that appeared on the back while collaging torn pre-colored music sheets. So taking the hint I emphasized the image that serendipitously appeared by darkening the area around it.

"LIFE PRESERVER"

SOLD

 Retablo created for Emmaus Fine Arts Group Travelling Exhibition 2010