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"A New Day" 27" x 16" x 4" $650 A New Day, indeed. One of my most recent pieces was just made during shelter in place. A vintage washboard, harkening back to simpler times, is the main form. The mystery round tin is an old music disc I found in the dust of a ghost town. Other ingredients are a tin star to light the way, old foreign coins, buttons, ribbons, paper, local sea glass and beeswax. 
Sideview with layers of ribbon, paint, paper and beeswax.
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"Blue Mandala" 13" diameter x 3 1/2" $375 SOLD This new piece is a personal favorite. It’s constructed on an old Chinese Checkers metal game board. It patiently evolved on a studio table as I tried out compositions using various oddities. Finally, the fancy metal trivet made it sing, especially with added color. I enhanced the original faded game board with gentle sanding, paint, sewn paper edging and encaustic beeswax. I love the center layers of round metal filters with variations of tiny dots. Other items are local sea glass, old buttons, and an old pan lid. 
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$225 SOLD
Joyful Adventures! What a title for a book, I want some! This sweet blue piece evolved from my latest collage series. It has 2 book covers. (The hidden blue is the back of a stamp collecting reference book.) Other items are local sea glass, vintage Japanese paper, buttons and ribbon.
- "Joyful Adventures in Blue"
$225 SOLD
Joyful Adventures! What a title for a book, I want some! This sweet blue piece evolved from my latest collage series. It has 2 book covers. (The hidden blue is the back of a stamp collecting reference book.) Other items are local sea glass, vintage Japanese paper, buttons and ribbon.
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"Joyful Adventures" 14" x 11" x 1" $350 Joyful Adventures! A book title started this new one off. I wish I’d gotten to read it! (A friend who knows I like oddities for art sent it, with the pages missing, which leaves room for plenty of imagination and mystery.) Initially this was one of my latest collage series. Notice the main center blue rectangle portion. The collage fit so perfectly upon a leather dictionary that was sitting nearby in my studio. Well, the rest is history…that dictionary (from 1908) no longer has covers! Other ingredients are postcard scraps from India, a butterfly from an illustration sheet within this very dictionary, local sea glass, old buttons, sewn ribbon, mounted on paper covered wood.
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"Golden Egg"
13 1/2" x 10" x 2" $375 SOLD I heard and read many tales as a child. Aesop’s Fables, The Goose with the Golden Egg still rings true to me to this day. A fellow artist saved a little dual oval frame she found, in the gutter of all places, knowing I’d use it. The shape lead me to create this golden piece. Digging into my treasure box I found another oval ivory colored vintage frame, perfect! Many other ingredients include a vintage leather encyclopedia cover and an old foreign book with embossed markings, an old locket, good luck coins, an old key, papers, ornate tacks, and of course, the page from Aesop’s Fables, who’s childhood book had been a patron of mine.
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ROYALITY Series
This Royality Series all started when an antique dealer saw my work in Petaluma. She asked me to wait a minute, as she ran to her basement for a stack of old Bridge card game dealer boards. ”I’ve been waiting for the perfect person to give these to!” They’ve turned out to be an interesting creative exercise. The boards are an unusual form with their irregular slots that held a deck of cards, which adds to the quirkiness. More added ingredients are other game pieces (Checkers, Poker, and Bingo), local sea glass and ceramic finds, old buttons, children’s blocks, ribbon, and a few mystery items. The old 78 rpm black records are the perfect complement as bases. (The record collection is called The Naughty Nineties, from 1890’s!)
"Royal Red"
12" x 10" x 3"
$235
"Royal Blue"
10" diameter x 2" $185 |
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"Royal YES"
10" diameter x 2" $185 SOLD |
"Royal Green"
8 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 2 1/2" $185 |
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“Kisses” 13" x 13" x 4" $245 This heart shaped wire basket is filled with dried grass roots I found blowing across local sand dunes. They easily formed into this shape, wrapped with threads and ribbons. Other items include a vintage hand clasp, a section of an old poem stitched with golden thread, feathers, and a poppy seed head. (The poem came from a vintage book, Crown Jewels, dated 1887.) |
“Home Sweet Home”
10 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 1 1/2"
$125
A stack of vintage Bingo board games recently came my way. This is mounted on another game, a black holder for Bridge cards. I formed a sweet nest with local sand dune grasses and thread. The lovely poem comes from a vintage book, Crown Jewels, dated 1887. A metal stem like shape from an old organ, G# in fact, holds the poem. Other items are misc. hearts and I believe, an owl feather.
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“Love Letters” 18" x 6 1/2" x 4" $310 SOLD Some years ago I found this old mailbox and immediately attached a metal heart to it, knowing I would call it Love Letters. It has hung on my studio walls and at times has been a place holder at shows, when other pieces have sold. It holds plenty of weathered mystery too. Now is the perfect time to actually have made the full piece for this February show. I shaped the pressed heart from copper and dipped it in healing hot springs waters (which patina’d the metal) then sealed it with beeswax. Other ingredients are fragments of an Argentinian letter from 1902, vintage paper, bells, the end of a fancy key, the top of a Balinese parasol, and a feather. 
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“Vintage Zinnia” 18" x 13" x 1" $285 From my series inspired by vintage seed packets dated 1915. The central section is coated in beeswax. Other ingredients are an old lace handkerchief, buttons, ribbons, stamps, silk tassel, and shell. Mounted on board with handmade paper and edged with thin golden ribbon. |
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"Square Peg"
10" x 9 1/2" x 3" $285 SOLD There are several friendly finds in this whimsical cozy piece. The driftwood square frame was given to me by an artist friend and the round main wood (a former wheel from an old handmade chaise lounge) came from another creative friend. I like the suggestion of trying to put a square peg in a round hole, hence the title. 
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"Grateful with Green Lid" $225 SOLD Grate-ful (grat’ful) pleasing, also thankful (< L. gratus: see grace), + -ful. One of my Grateful Series, inspired from vintage graters. I enjoy using well loved elements from our daily life. Play on words is always fun too. Metal kitchen gadgets, especially baking tins and tools catch my eye when out scavenging. |