Bombarded

I worked and worked on this piece and finally just painted the whole thing.  And then touched up some of the red, etc. That seemed to do the trick - now it coheres and is more mysterious.    

CASCADES

 There are currently 7 Cascades in the series.  They have been inspired by my large bag of handmade lace from the late 19th and early 20th centuries - passed down in my family.  Each is hand stitched, of course!  They are attached to a rock from my garden with holes drilled by handyman Brian and his new diamond drill bit!  They sit happily on a shelf.

Some New Work

 A couple of new items emerging from the 4 months "underground" getting my show prepped.  More to come...

PHOTOS from my BIG birthday exhibit

     ENJOY!! 

My GREAT BIG EXHIBIT

 

Thrilled to have this opportunity to share a LOT of my recent work with you all.  Please share the announcement with friends and anyone you think would enjoy a visit to my world of textiles.  Please let me know if you wish to bring a group and I will gladly do a walk through.                                                                                   See you there!!

WHEEE!! in Fiber Art Now Spring 2026

 

        WHEEE!! has gotten a lot of attention.  From a photo I took of a rusty         truck by the highway in Big Sur, CA, to gallery walls, this art quilt will         be in the Spring edition of FAN.   Yippee!!!

Maw of Fire

 This piece was featured on the SAQA blast on November 14.   For some reason it won't show up on my Facebook, but here it is!!

Recent Work

        

                                                                     WHEE!!!

                                    HH #23
 

ASHEN

Just finished a new piece in response to continuing fires we have experienced over large swathes of the planet.  I keep wishing I was done with fire-based artwork, but we continue to suffer from its damage.  34" x 18"

See How Artists are Responding to These Times

 The PHES Gallery in Carlsbad, CA, is putting on a juried show called Artists Respond to the Moment.  I had 2 pieces selected, a sort of matched pair, called MOHS 1 and 2.   I thought they were pretty good representatives of how the world feels to me at this moment.  Cut, dug, sliced - the violence before the correction!  The planet feels like there will be an effort to clean the place up,  purge it of evil, fear and negativity.  We can hope that eventually this will lead to a MUCH healthier physical, intellectual and emotional state for us all.  Yea, photos of my surgery last year...   Viewing not recommended for the squeamish!!

MOHS #1

MOHS #2

Hope to see you at the OPENING July 27!!

Hawaii Here Comes FiberFly!!

 

Aloha Kakou, Deborah Weir of LA based Fiberfly Studios https://fiberfly.blogspot.com/ will do a free, open to the public slide show lecture on Saturday March 15 at Kaimuki Library. In the afternoon she will do a silk dyeing workshop which you can sign up for  https://www.hawaiihandweavers.org/event-6002082 Should be a great learning experience and a lot of fun! Learn Fiber Arts with Us! Classes Donate classes@hawaiihandweavers.org info@hawaiihandweavers.org hawaiihandweavers.org

Panel at Quilts on the Wall Yesterday

The Southern California art quilt group Quilts on the Wall invited me to serve on a panel to discuss my design process.  It was fun and I learned a lot, but I only talked about my quilts with are maybe 1/3 of my art practice, so it was interesting to prep and just focus on my collages, Photoshopping and then having them printed and getting to do the miles of the hand stitching I add.  I confessed to them that I actually don't really know how to "quilt!" 

SOLD!!!

 So thrilled, Middens #1 sold today from the Fiber Art Now exhibit at the Texas Museum of Quilts.  Thanks to everyone who had a hand in the exhibition!  3D layers of accumulated detritus.