I recently attended Texture & Terrain, Intertwining Perspectives, a collaboration of two artists, Tarja Cockell and Sus Iserbyt. Tarja is a textile artist and Sus is a painter. It’s the feature exhibit at the Western Avenue Studios in Lowell. Tarja is a member of our small textile artists group called We Are Six and 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.
D Illusions Exhibit
Last night I went to the opening of the Abstract Artists Group of New England at the Newburyport Art Association. There are some incredibly good paintings on exhibit, but for me the highlight was the vibrant fiber art of Madalene Axford Murphy of Amesbury MA, a recent implant from PA. She’s a member of our “We […]
SAQA MA/RI Region at The Whistler
Besides Sue Colozzi, Sue Bleiwiess and me, our SAQA MA/RI Region was well represented at The Whistler with the addition of one special piece at The Whistler that got so much attention I couldn’t get near enough to a clear view of it for picture taking. Every time I went to snap it, someone else was […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 