St. John’s Wort Plant Spirit Painting

Sharing the light of the plants out loud I first met St. John’s Wort many ago on top of a mountain bald here called Max Patch.  It is one of the loveliest places on earth. Being on Max Patch on a beautiful day makes me feel like my soul is shining out of me as brightly…

Art Show at Eclipse Salon Asheville

If you find yourself in downtown Asheville in the month of March, I hope you’ll swing by Eclipse Salon on Wall Street to check out my work! There will be some bird paintings for sale, bird ornaments, a few prints, and lots of large scale original paintings for sale. It’s a busy salon, but you’re…

Thanks for coming!

The opening at Raven and Crone for the beginning of my Plant Spirit Portraits was a wonderful night!! As usual, I didn’t take a lot of pictures because I was too busy enjoying talking to all of you WONDERFUL folks who came out.  Dang, I know some amazing folks! Here are some pictures from the…

Plant Spirit Portraits

For the past few years, I have been nurturing an artistic and spiritual project that is very dear to my heart.  On November 22nd, the very first few paintings from that project will be publicly shown at Raven & Crone in Asheville. A few summers ago, I was sitting in meditation at one of my favorite…

Art Show at The Asheville Loft

http://www.theashevilleloft.com I will be a part of a group show at the Asheville Loft on Friday, June 27th from 7-10 pm. The Asheville Loft is a very cool new gallery space.  It’s the living space/loft of two Asheville artists who love art so much they have turned a part of their home into a gallery. …

Walnut Tree Mural

I just finished this mural for some friends.  They wanted a walnut tree in their living room- it was important that it could be identified as black walnut.  I completed it over many weeks in 2 hour sessions once a week.  The mushrooms were added at the bottom by their request to match a painting…

Autumn Fairies

A few years ago, I got really carried away making fairy Christmas ornaments.  I started with old-fashioned fixed clothes pins with a wooden ball for a head and then added all kinds of faux-flowers and glitter covered Christmas do-dads.  My mom and I had made some when I was little and I have fond memories…

Jewelweed Yarn

My friend Heidi has been kind enough to manage the yarn while I’ve been away.  She sent me these two pictures comparing the yarn before they were rinsed and after. Before After I’ll admit that I like the color before the rinse a great deal more.  But I still really enjoy the after rinse color. …

Dyeing with Jewelweed

Man, dyeing stuff with plant material is just so much fun. Since I wasn’t crazy about the yellow color the marigolds dyed my yarn (it’s for a sweater for myself, and I am just not going to wear big bird yellow, no matter how sunny and lovely a color it is), I wanted to try…

A New Obsession: Natural Dyes

Yes, I am now behind again on my 52 portraits plight.  I don’t care.  I had to spend the entire weekend dyeing wool with plants.  I HAD to! Previously, I had only dyed with black walnut which requires no mordant or special treatment. I started with marigolds.  I did a little research online about how…