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
Irish Weather on the Wethers
Meet Azalea. She joined our little flock yesterday which brings us back to four sheep after the loss of Oscar in August. She is a Navajo Churro breed. Our others are Dorset crosses. Today got me thinking of our first serious discussion about raising...
The New Day, According to Ralph
“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson I came across this little wise nugget via my childhood Kristen this morning. Sometimes the right words just...
Listen! {in memory of summer evenings}
"Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” Humbert Wolfe Autumn has only arrived, in accordance with the calendar. Though leaves have been falling and the air is chill each morning...
See Original Art Here
- First Branch Coffee
- Artistree Gallery, Pomfret, Vermont— Five pieces in Small Works exhibit, open through December 21
- The Current, Stowe, Vermont—Two pieces in Member Show through December 14
- In my home studio by appointment
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- Experiment with Watercolor - 3 part class in January 2025, Pomfret, VT
- Abstracted Landscape with Acrylics - 1 day workshop, February 2, Pomfret, VT
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