I have no idea what month I am on... I got back from France and found THREE books waiting for me! Yikes. So - enough whining - here's what I did for the first one. The instructions were to use a basic geometric shape for the string. I used circles and spirals and...

HUES & VIEWS Exhibition: Collaborative Art Journals, and Altered Books October 1-31, 2009 Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 7 from 5-7 New Hampshire Institute of Art Fuller Hall 156 Hanover Street, Manchester If you are in the area, and have time, go see this show! 24 artists, in 2 groups of 12, passed around altered books...

Well, I've been home for a week now - and I still feel jet-lagged. The first few days, I kept feeling like I wanted to cry - the states seem so strange to me. Everything seems so new and modern and product oriented. How weird is that? We live in a 200 year...

This is my page for July's round robin Zentangle challenge. The book is Adele's and she asked us to use a particular shape for the initial string (it's the 5 sided shape in the center) and also to include a quote. I was inspired by this quote to create...

OK, so I was wandering around the Sunapee craft fair and, I admit, feeling a little insignificant and remembering my own rejections by the jury (was it really 3 times?) But then my mother showed me a little, free publication from Kearsarge Magazine, Art & Gallery Guide. She picked it up in Kathleen Dustin'...

I belong to the NH chapter of the Womens Caucus for Arts. There has been an interesting discussion lately about the differences between commercial art and fine art. I wanted to post the response that I wrote with my own opinions, here on my blog with the hopes that some of you readers might offer...