musings

2025 is begining with me in some gallery shows. Selections in Newport NH and at the Thorne -Sagendorph gallery in Keene NH. I'm happy to have my work in places where it can be seen. Glad my husband and fellow artist and Mark O'Neil came with me to the opening of Selections. I am not the most social creature.

I broke my leg and shattered my left ( non-drawing) wrist in December of 2023. Today is August 19th 2024 and I am not fully recovered yet. I am recovered enough to spend some time considering the past 8 months. I spent the first few months unable to walk. I hopped from spot to spot. I lived in a recliner and drew in spirol sketch pads. Every day. I think my artwork got better through practice and focus. I graduated to 11" x 15" pieces of Reeves BFK and started collaging again a couple months ago and I really like the pieces. 4 of them were acepted to shows and 2 of them have gotten me a more exclusive place in a group show at the Arts Center Gallery in Newport NH in 2025. I'm making some landscape studies in collage.

Landscape in relationship to the Creature based collages I make may seem pretty dissimalar. I have been looking at a lot of Chinese landscapes. They are awesome. I feel the mythical, spiritual and magical comingle so beautifully with the natural world in those landscapes.