Friday, January 28, 2011

Electric Coral at the Blue Heron


This is my next show! It's with Contemporary QuiltArt Association, which has 120 members throughout Washington state. This is a joint show with Vashon Allied Arts at the Blue Heron Gallery on Vashon Island. The image is a detail of my piece, Electric Coral, used in publicity. An image of the whole piece, along with a nice write up about the quilts to be displayed is on http://www.vashonalliedarts.org/gallery/gallery.htm

Monday, January 3, 2011

Hot Cocoa


Considering the snow outside, this image seemed appropriate. This handbag is called "Hot Cocoa".

A lot has been happening since I last posted ages ago. The Best of the Northwest show was fantastic. 250 artists. I didn't get a chance to talk to many of them, though I did come extra early one day and at least saw most of the booths. I had terrific neighbors who shared their experience and advice doing shows. And, thanks to swaps, came home with a luscious pashmina cashmere shawl and a landscape view of Cannon Beach.


One of my great excuses for not blogging during Dec. is that I was swamped - what a great problem - with getting work completed. I had work at two holiday shows. One at Gallery Cygnus in La Conner, WA and the other at Gallery by the Bay in Stanwood, WA. http://www.gallerycygnus.com/, http://www.gallerybythebay.com/


A small group of artists and I did a co-op show for several days in Dec. I also did an open studio in mid December. Visitors were slow, but it was a great reason to clean house a bit and sort through the studio. There is a fine line between creative chaos and just plain chaos and I had jumped over that line some time ago.