postcard series

I was recently asked if all of the art pictured on this blog is my own. Yes it is. Always. Even though I may write about another artist in the text. For example, today I came across Sue Lawty's name twice and so I'm taking that as a sign to create a link to her blog. It comes out of the Victoria and Albert museum in London England where she is currently artist in residence. She is working directly with collections of pebbles, one of the things I find quite inspiring.

into a tender mode

Psychoanalysis and art. An artwork has a relationship with two persons: the creator and the viewer. The creator actually makes a self portrait with every painting, no matter what her subject. The viewer sees the resulting artwork through a veil of his own life experience and what is lacking there. According to Jaques Lacan, vision has more to do with desire than with optics.

Natural Rhythm

I switched over to the new blogger tonight . It required that I edit my sidebar and unfortunately, I seem to have lost some of the more recently added favourite blogs. One of these is Friederike, a wonderful textile art blog from Germany.

I enjoy having other artist's blogs just a click away and shall re-instate those lost ones when I next feel like spending two or three hours stuck in front of the computer. Never fear.

plantain and cardinal flower letter from home

Over the many summers that we've lived on Manitoulin Island, I've collected a wide variety of beautiful pieces of nature. All manner of leaves and wild flowers are pressed in stacks of magazines and newspapers. Seed pods, wild bird feathers, mica, shells, and heart shaped stones are sorted into plastic containers. I have drawers of these things. My new idea is to draw my collection onto watercolour paper and see what happens next.