Above photo credit: Jaylyn McFadden
Flax Art
In early 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
Life at the Crossroad
Back in 2010 I subtitled my new blog 129 Twig and Vine 'At the Intersection Between Art and Life. All these years later, I am living—literally—at an intersection. We moved into the little brick house in ate April and the year of work is slowly ebbing from...
The Little Brick House on the Corner
There is a little village near here where my family lives. My brother and his wife moved there in 1995, and this small town—with only a couple hundred residents—took them in. My parents bought a house around the corner from my brother in 2004, and also...
Frosty Feeling, Antidote: Hygge
Welcome January. I guess. The world is frosty, and I'm working to warm my heart to the hard work ahead. Outside the windows it's fairly bleak and monochrome. But red, green and blue keep popping up saying, "Hey look at me!!" Safe marching in Washington,...
Follow Along
Want a little blue sky in your inbox?
I send emails when the stars align (every so often).
See Original Art Here
- First Branch Coffee
- Artistree Gallery — Local Color exhibit, Sept 27 - Nov 2
- In my home studio by appointment
Contact Me
802-558-4390 mobile
Sue(at)sueschlabach.com
Message me on instagram
Let's Connect
