© Jaylyn McFadden

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.

More about the Flax Artists…

© Sue Schlabach
Sue Schlabach Artist

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

Good Morning Weekend

Good Morning Weekend

Here's a little weekend watercolor applied over an ink drawing I did a while ago. It's part of this collection if you'd like to see more. Wishing you a happy weekend and some creativity or exploring on your horizon. I am painting and sewing this morning, and...

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Late Summer Foraging

Late Summer Foraging

  Are you a forager? In spring I dig up ramps and cut fiddleheads. I love to find raspberries, blackberries and untended apple trees. But other than morels, which I can identify well, I'm a little timid to collect...

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Abandoned

I drive by this alpine meadow near my house most days and see a shingled roof up there through the trees. I've been so curious about this cabin since glimpsing it for the first time last year. So a few weeks ago I was traveling past mid-morning on a weekday...

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