Hi, everyone,
I have a New page on my website showing all 68 of my series of
"Riding the Horse" Quilts
The idea of "all embracing" reminds me to let go of resistance and to listen to my heart.
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CONNECTION
I have thought of myself as an artist since I was five years old, so it is a big part of my identity and self image. Growing up, I used drawing and painting as a tool of survival in a chaotic home environment. I was pretty good at color and making pictures; this gave me a sense of purpose and connection with people. As a young mother, I began making quilts for utilitarian reasons which, in time, became art quilts.
Connecting is a joining together into one. Quilts are like that in that they are a combination of all sorts of fabric parts, often very different from one another, and yet, they converge into a beautiful unifying integrating continuum of relatedness, that being the quilt itself. Often, fabrics are the designs and artwork of many different artists and sometimes discarded clothing gives the quilt added meaning. There is a great kinship of connection, a sisterhood and brotherhood inherent in the quilt medium. The universal meaning of fabric in our everyday lives attracts me to the use of cloth in my art. I really like the sense of individuality I get with making images with pen, pencil, paint and brushes and I love how connected I become to others because of quilt making.
For purchasing information about the quilt, "Connection,"
click here
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Subscribe to My Blog:
I have been publishing a blog of spiritual inspirations for a while now. Most days (unless I am out of town teaching) I post something. I have written a book of 365 meditations, one for each day of the year that I use for the daily posts. Each one has an image of one of my drawings and some of them are Power Patches. Now I have made it possible for you to subscribe so that you can get an email every time I update the blog. It's nice to get a little reminder of something good every day! To sign up click on the link at the top right of the blog page.
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I have been having
fun making little
videos. Click this link
to see the video for September:
"Staying Put"
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