Since I felt under the weather this week after oral surgery I wanted to just play with some new designs. Using only scraps for this exercise, I first drew up some initial sketches (which, unfortunately, I already crumpled up and tossed) and began to lay out the pieces on pieces of 3″X4″ quilters grid. I […]
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.
January. One Four Challenge. Week 1
I started with this photo that I took at just about 4PM on a somewhat gloomy day at one of my favorite spots, Lake Quannapowett in Wakefield, MA. Yet, still, I noticed that twilight was imbedded in the image before my eyes – something so classic about the late afternoon on a wintry day in New […]
23 Finishes In 2014
Already this year the days are flying by before I can keep up with myself! So today I’ll show you the last two of the pieces I’ve finished in 2014 but not yet mounted. Christmas gifts took priority over ordering the stretcher strips I need to hang these babies up but I’ll be ordering them today. […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 