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
Sunday Morning, Paris
7:30 on a Sunday morning in Paris is mostly quiet. The streets are deserted, but littered with debris left by the revelers of Saturday night. In empty cobbled passageways the flutter of pigeons' wings passing between the roofs is the only sound to join the...
Bouquet Garni, Young Beans, and a Roosting Chicken
Tonight's dinner of braised root vegetables was seasoned with bouquet garni—a pleasing little bundle of parsley, thyme and bay. We ate the sweet potatoes, carrots, and beets over gnocchi, drizzled with the pan juices, butter, and chopped herbs. The wind...
Death of a Lamb
Oh E.B. White. You came to mind immediately yesterday. A day so long and multi-faceted that my memory of it now breaks it into chapters. More of E.B. White to come. Stay with me. Chapter 1 12:15 a.m. Lights out. We've just finished watching the sad and...
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
Registeration Open!
- 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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