I’m doing a happy dance! I just read my emails and this is what it said: “Congratulations! Your entry All’s One Under The Sun 2 was selected by Juror Susan Burnes, for SAQA’s juried exhibition, Concrete and Grasslands. The exhibition will debut at Grant’s Pass Museum of Art, Grant’s Pass, Oregon, and may then travel.” […]
Author: turtlemoonimpressions
As a native plant gardener, the natural world is phenomenal and so much of the man-made world - our architecture, our cities - are stunning accomplishments. They exist hand in hand in both beautiful expressions and sometimes disastrous manifestations.
Our entire existence with the natural and the invented is intertwined – each dependent on the other, even as my art evolves, each breathing in the wake of the other.
As a mixed media artist - textile, paper, printmaker - various substrates and mediums - surface design is one aspect of the process that I love. I thoroughly enjoy the play with color, value and construct, particularly the improvisation which starts with one thing, an idea, a glimpse of a vision, perhaps something that captures my eye for a moment in time and it grows organically. I become focused on whatever piece I'm working on and follow my muse to find my way.
The Zen Of Making Soy Mordant
I’ve made a lot of soymilk lately. I found it’s the key, or at least one important part, of natural contact printing. aka eco-printing. It’s not the only mordant I’ve been using but it’s the critical one for cotton. I use it on silk as well, but I think cotton needs it. I takes quite […]
The Fuller Craft Museum
I’m still enamored with the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA! It’s a destination for folks interested in the arts who live here as well a who are visiting! Another one of the current exhibits at The Fuller you’d be happy to see: Little Dreams in Glass and Metal: Enameling in America, 1920 to the […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 