Above photo credit: Jaylyn McFadden
Flax Art
In January I hung an installation called Murmuration at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, as part of their Scaffolding Exhibition. It is open from now through March 1. I’ll be teaching a flax sculpture workshop on March 8. Come out and build something with your hands!
Last September I curated a flax art exhibit in the historic church in East Barnard, Vermont. I’ll be working to find more places to exhibit this unusual and beautiful collection of work made by 11 artists (self included). We learned the signature methods for felting and sculpting with flax from master Belgian artist Germana Tack.
My studio is the former taproom in an 1830s brick house in rural Vermont.
But my favorite studio is under the sky where I get started on most of my paintings. The French call this en plein air, meaning in the open air. My brother gave me an old easel and it accompanies me around the back roads and hillsides near my home. In 2022 I started painting from the bed of our old pickup truck (I saw the Irish artist Elizabeth Cope doing this on the pages of Faire magazine and had to try it). I spend the winter months finishing my summer paintings, and creating dreamscapes that are composites of the places I’ve been fortunate to go. I work in slow-dry acrylics by Golden Paints and use wide hardware store brushes and Rosemary artist brushes. Just love them!
From my journal
Out of the Comfort Zone and Into the Mystic
Butterflies in my stomach, I overpacked the car with groceries, canvases, kitchen sinks and a bathing suit for good measure. So many months ago I applied for this residency, at a place I knew little about. Why do introverts sign on for such things? This...
On the Easel – March
Walker Hill, Fable Farm, and More Swallows In February I traveled to Kochi in Kerala, India, for 10 days of bold color, rich connections, and a renewed appreciation for leaping out of my comfort zone. I came home to mud season and sent pictures of snow and...
It’s All So Fragile
It was 10 below zero when I woke up this morning. The sun is shining so bright I need to pull the shade to avoid squinting. And layered over an ordinary March morning is this ceaseless ache for the anguish across the globe. Moments in Ukraine—described by...
See Original Art Here
- MUD Exhibit, Artistree, Pomfret, Vermont, March 15-April 19
- Bank Street Gallery, AVA, Lebanon (New Hampshire) ongoing
- First Branch Coffee (Vermont) ongoing
- In my home studio by appointment
Where I'm Teaching...
- More workshops coming soon
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