Take care of yourselves today, Kind Friends. Shelter the candle within, keep it bright.
November 5, 2024
Now is the time. This is the Day. Be well.
A Winter Fairy (on eBay, ending Sunday Sept 1)
Friends, this Winter Fairy is presently on eBay, ending tomorrow evening, Sunday, Sept. 1 (I meant to post earlier! It’s been an interesting week…) This Fairy was begun long ago, when I was creating more very small beings. She was finished this year, 2024. She’s likely one of the last of her particular species! If you’d like to take a look, here’s her auction. Her eBay item number is 116306232284.
Thanks for visiting! <3
Vineyard Muse, and website news....
Kind Visitors, here’s Vineyard Muse, who found a home via the Haven Gallery at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2024. She sprouted horns from her leafy crown — she wanted to be close to her faun cousins.
A bit of news: I’ve been redesigning this website, which has felt a bit fossilized for a long time. It wants mending and a fresh look, to match some new projects I’m hatching! In the next weeks, I’ll put up an “UNDER CONSTRUCTION” page, and do a major update. I hope it will offer you a better experience… Thanks so much for visiting!!
Nights Sphinx, or the Sphinx and the Magician
Sister to the Sphinx and the Hermit, from some time ago.
The Virgin Shrimp
Friends, here’s my take on that deep question, “What if Queen Elizabeth the First had been a crustacean?” She has also been chosen as a finalist in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine’s Art Prize competition — enough to please any Aquatic Monarch! :) She’s in fabulous company, which can be seen on the People’s Choice voting page (if you’re inclined to vote for your favorite pieces, the deadline Sept. 7, 2023 Australian Eastern time).
Debutante, a young Medusa
A Sculpting in Clay book by the Shiflett Brothers...
Friends, here's a fabulous sculpting demonstration book by the beloved and brilliant Shiflett Brothers, with guest appearances by Simon Lee, Aris Kolokontes and myself. The Brothers, Simon Lee and Aris Kolokontes present phenomenal clay sculpting demos, and I added a demo on mulberry paper fairy wings. The book is available direct from art publishers 3dTotal (who did a great job concisely editing my meandering brain) and from the Aves clay studios, as well as from Amazon and others. It's a truly super book for anyone who wants to explore what clay can do in our fantastical realm!
Titania's Garden II, at the Haven Gallery
Friends, this fairy has found a permanent home already, but can still be seen at the Haven Gallery in Northport, NY till mid-October, 2022.
An Interview in Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly
Cathy and Arnie Fenner, creators of Spectrum Fantastic Art, have a gorgeous new quarterly magazine. I was immensely honored to have an interview in the first issue — an interview by colleague and wondrous fellow sculptor Kristine Poole, which made it even better! Design and calligraphy are by Rick Cusick, who reveals just how magical calligraphy can be.
The magazine, Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, is available through:
Winter Sphinx, WIP...
March, 2022
Words are bound to go wrong. They’re a bunch of little double-edged daggers that slice six ways to Sunday and always offend somebody. Often now every word feels to me like a lit match over at least a spoonful of gunpowder. And who am I to wield them at all -- a kind of toymaker with a poor memory for the hard details of the world.
But sometimes the need to speak has the soul thrashing in the night. Sometimes it feels like a duty to witness, even if one’s words are just a useless kind of itching powder. Silence has so often surrounded screaming atrocities. And we are awash in atrocities. Ukraine. And Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Myanmar, North Korea, abuses in Brazil and the Philippines, Haiti, and… Unspeakable anguish slathered on with our trowel. Lie face down and cry for our species.
The burning point of Ukraine: grievous suffering I cannot imagine, shot through with human tenacity and heroism I cannot imagine summoning. A blue and yellow morning star above the apocalypse.
History writes in blood that authoritarian strongmen produce lies and brutality and death. Betrayal. That lust for personal gain and more more more power twists toward madness. That people only hoping to build lives day to day drown in tsunamis driven by the inflamed egos of tyrants. It is a murderous crime and always will be, everywhere.
As Russian protesters are dragged to prison for their courage, Putin has shrunk himself to a vicious seed of destruction that will live only in infamy. I hear the World Wars breathing in the shadows.
So how in heaven do we navigate our little boats piled with hope.
Meantime, in my country, our facts have cracked like the melting Arctic and floated off in opposite directions. We stand on our broken ice and shriek at each other because our truths no longer line up and how will they ever.
Yet it seems we must all of us keep tossing the tiny flowers of our personal effort on the waters. We must do it even as the world burns, and perhaps beyond reach of this moment we will glimpse sanctuary. A swan among the lilies.
The Tinderbox...
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s tale, The Tinderbox. About 18” x 19” in mixed media. Somehow I think of much loved fairytale books as winter and Christmas come…
Two Sphinx WIPs, and a Head
Kind Visitor, thank you for continuing to come see me! It has been a long strange year and more. I hope you and yours are prevailing! <3 Here are a couple of pieces underway, soon to fly to their home, from my newly set up studio.
A Beautiful Bizarre Magazine "Take Over"
Friends, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine — https://www.instagram.com/beautifulbizarremagazine/ — asked me to pick seven favorite pieces of art, plus one of my own, and comment on why I love each one. They then posted these images and comments on their social media on Tuesday June 8. I was intrigued by the process and honored! Check it out if you have a chance, as well as all the other fascinating art on their site!