Ready? Set? Here we go, bravely heading into 2012! You’ve been on my mind since last week. Many thoughtful, appreciative comments came in on The Realm of You. What an intelligent and capable group of people you are. Here’s part two: How to Gloriously Rule your Realm in 2012. Yes, this year will be turbulent….
Category Archives: inspiration
Art-making, Wine-making and Your Life Now.
“We live on the leash of our senses” Diane Ackerman wrote, then added “There is no way to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.” Ready to become the artist of your own life? Deliberately re-engage with your senses, one by one. Consider: Everything you know and believe, all…
Tahitian Flora Sketches and Polymer Mokume Gane
Update – Studio work for my Aug. 1 show: My theme is souvenirs of places I have visited, in real life or in my imagination. Today: Papeete, capital of Tahiti: Floral fecundity. In a grand and intriguing gift from the Universe (thanks!) I went to Tahiti several years ago with a small group of wonderful…
Excursions, Explorations
Ever noticed how when you start something really new, you like having company around? I want to share a creative project with you that I just started and that I’ve wanted to do for a long time. The process will be a grand adventure. We’ll travel across creative action, polymer clay, aesthetic choices, jewelry construction,…
Happy Campers! Polymer Fractals Field Trip
Polymer clay iterative patterning and three-fold isomorphic replication! Fifth grade girls! EYH outing! This Monday, I again taught Fractals in Polymer at the annual one-day conference “Expanding Your Horizons”. Here I am with my excellent co-presenter John Paul Gonzales. Combining artmaking with my love of math and science inspires me into new experimental areas. EYH’s…
Focus and Mayhem in my Studio
A couple of weeks ago, I vacated my studio for a month so that an out-of-town artist friend of mine could work while visiting. Ian Ingram is an astonishing artist. His current work is a series of 12 hyperrealist charcoal and pastel drawings, 7 feet high, yes feet. Magical and disruptive, and very beautiful. We…
New Spring Collection, part 2
More of my recent work, these emphasizing the rich evocations of the Trebizond Collection, and another in my Aquarelles series. For details and to purchase any of these for your own delight and enjoyment, please come to my gallery shop. Ah, spring! ”Luxor Spring’: Trebizond collection – imitative ivory pendant inlaid with imitative turquoise, scribings…
“Aquarelles” New Spring Collection, part 1
Hello my friends- In the New Mexico hills we are inhaling a blossoming spring, and it’s evident in my newest necklaces. I wanted to show you, as if you were here in Santa Fe too, and we were sitting in my studio: More images and details are here. ‘Springs Eternal’: hinged translucent pendant, many techniques in…
Psst: My Studio has 8 Helpful Tips for You
Working in my studio for 27 years, through hard and easy times, has taught me a great deal about persevering through turbulence. The personality of my studio has emerged and developed over the years. A blend of Annie Dillard and Terry Pratchett, it likes the name Sam. Sam is a specific aspect of my nature:…
Fabulous, Dahling! In-Your-Face Creative Inspiration
Creatively stuck? Feeling lost when you go to make things? Here’s in-your-face inspiration that’ll make your art, and your heart, sing. Dive into a friend’s aesthetic and see what happens. Inspiration is everywhere. I use all sorts of people and things as inspirations to keep my work fresh. As I share my creative process with…