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"Deep and Light" 2009, $3000
6" high x 6" long x 6" wide; silk, cotton and rayon thread; glass beads; polymer clay; wool; wire
These images represent work that may be available for sale, either through a gallery or directly from me. Click on any image for an enlargement. If you are interested in purchasing work or have any questions, please email me. See Sold Work for the ones that got away.
There are states of awareness that are not waking and are not sleeping, that are not even the edges of awake or asleep but are in a vast territory not defined by awake/asleep. In the same way there are many dreams that are not daydreams nor are they sleep dreams. Not dreams of your future or of what might have been. These dreams are an open door to another awareness. These dreams allow the dreamer to walk through, over the threshold, into another today, another place with other ways of being alive, of being whole, of being true. True in the sense of being fully oneself, expressing the lost and hidden and unknown, unappreciated qualities that each of us has. When we find our way to this door and cross the threshold there is much to be experienced, to explore. From this vast ocean we encourage a rivulet and nurture it into a stream, coaxing and inviting it to flow home with us and become a part of our waking and sleeping lives.
I like to go to this place of dreams like a gardener, basket in hand, to harvest. But how to harvest an ocean? A basket full of water will never be an ocean. It will only be wet. But even simply the wetness holds the mystery of another today and it may stir some heart memory when felt. I go to gather images, wet with this ocean’s waters and bring them back with me, their mystery and healing still clinging to them. If all goes well I give these images new homes, living in my thread paintings. To give these drops of water from the ocean of the other today a chance to splash you with their being.
"The River" 2009, $3000
7" high x 20" long x 6 1/2" wide; silk, cotton and rayon thread; glass beads; polymer clay; wool; wire
"Eclipse" 2008, $1500 35 x 35"; antique cotton fabric and lace, silk
"Birdy" 2008, $1000
17 x 31"; antique linen and lace, glass beads (detail shown; click for full enlargement)
"Visiting the Solstice" 2008, $4000
7-1/8 x 9"; silk, cotton, rayon and metallic
thread with glass beads. Frame is 16-1/2 x 19-1/4", painted burnt sienna with
a gold line around the outer edge; inner edge is lavender grey.
"Many Circles" 2007, $5500
13-3/4 x 14"; silk, cotton and rayon thread with glass beads. Frame size: 19 x 19-3/4", painted dappled blue grey with yellow groove and golden inner edge.
"Sea Tree" 2007, $6000
9-1/4 x 12-1/2"; silk, cotton, rayon and metallic thread; vintage coral and glass beads; shell, pearls, vintage metallic trim. Frame is painted soft blue and coral with taupe outer edges; 19 x 22-3/4"
"Sky Above Me, 10-21-04" 2007, NFS
27 x 27"; vintage Japanese indigo-dyed cotton, vintage and other crystal, glass and shell beads
"Out Beyond Ideas - Star Garden, 2-12-06" 2006, $7000
16 3/4 x 12"; frame size 19 3/4 x 23"
Shell, glass, pearl and stone beads; antique metallic thread, cords and braids; vintage Japanese indigo dyed cotton, wool crepe; antique trim. Frame is painted blue/black with white speckles and brown edges.
"Little Sparrow" 2006, NFS
3-7/8 x 4-3/4", silk, cotton, rayon and metallic thread; glass beads; ribbon; mounted on silk. Shadowbox frame 8-1/4 x 9" is painted silver.
"Turtle" 2006, $6000
10 1/4 x 12 3/4"; frame size 23 1/2 x 25 1/2"
Silk, cotton, rayon and metallic thread; vintage and other calico; glass and metal beads. Frame is painted spruce green with chip carved edge painted blue-green and red-brown.
"Running Bond - A New Day" 2006, $3500
8 1/4 x 8 1/4"; frame size 12 1/4 x 14 1/4"
silk, cotton, rayon and metallic thread, glass beads. Frame is painted moss green with a fine gray edge.
"Looking South - Star Garden, 3-9-06" 2006, $3500
8 3/8 x 9 1/2"; frame size 19 x 20"
Silk, cotton and rayon thread; glass and vegetable ivory beads; antique metallic cord. Frame is painted soft brown with sponging, periwinkle blue corner squares, spring green inner edge.
"My Sampler" 2005, $7000
10 x 25"; frame size 15 x 30 1/2"
Silk, cotton and rayon thread; glass beads; antique calico fabrics; antique velvet ribbon. Frame is flame maple.
"Flora" 2004, $6000
18 x 20"
Silk, cotton, rayon thread, vintage and other beads and buttons, calico, velvet and vintage ribbon. The frame is a shadow box underpainted terracotta with a dark gold glaze.
"Domesticated Animal" 2004, $2500
6 x 5"; frame 10" x 10"
Silk, cotton and rayon thread with glass beads; mounted on vintage calico. Frame is brick red with brown outer edge, yellow inside edge.
"Domesticated Animal II" 2004, $2000
4 x 4 1/2"; frame 8 3/4 x 8 3/4"
Silk, cotton and rayon thread with glass beads; mounted on calico. Frame is ochre with green outer edge and soft grey inner edge.
"Summer Dream Tea" 2003, $6000
9 1/2 x 12 3/4"; frame 20 3/4 x 23 1/2"
Flat silk thread, antique glass beads and cord. Frame is painted soft blue, stencilled with copper flowers and green leaves.
"The Spirit of Togetherness" 2003, $6500
9 3/8 x 12 1/2"; frame 21 1/2 x 24 1/2
Silk, cotton and rayon thread with glass and steel beads. Frame is painted rosy brick, with inner edge butter yellow with a dark gray line.
"Summer Fan" 2003, $2000
6 3/4 x 5 3/4"; frame 12 1/2 x 10 1/4"
Silk, cotton, rayon and metallic thread, antique cord, antique glass beads. Frame is painted moss green with thin gold edges
"One Cat" 2002, $8000
24 x 12" Silk, cotton, rayon thread, glass beads, silk mat.
"Book of Years, XXII Bloom Again,
XVIII Speak of Flowers" 2002, $15,000
35" x 20" in diptych frame. Silk, cotton, rayon, metallic thread, glass beads, velvet ribbon.
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