As a singer, songwriter and performer, I am continually learning about the nature of the creative process. Trying to adapt strategies to summon, channel and direct this force is a challenge that requires a certain discipline. Each of my above stated occupations, (or pre-occupations) makes its’ own associated demands. Let’s start with songwriting. For me, […]
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.
We Three Blues
I’ve spent a lot of time this week working on a new piece that’s not ready yet for viewing, but I’ve been doing some painting in between the times that I’m puttering toward organizing things and times when I’m letting ideas about my new work percolate. I love painting again…been so long.
For Irma!
It’s the fourth in the series: Family Stories. I’m not sure who took this photo of my mother as a young woman during the depression at work in a cigar shop. It was most likely one of her brothers. I love this shot. It just brings the viewer right there past time and place. This […]
Turtlemoon Impressions 