Tangled Stitch

Hi!  It's been a really long time hence the title.  A lot has changed since we've last met.  I have a job.  I'm a server at my local Cracker Barrel and I love it!  Love the people I work with, the guests I interact with and love being able to pay my bills.  I've also recently begun embroidering a bit more.  I'm still pursuing my art but on an admittedly slower basis and still a member of Valley Artisans Market. I don't know if this blog post is a new beginning or just a check in.  I guess we'll have to wait and see.  I take it one day at a time and try to keep moving forward.  I've been working on Gutted quite a bit.  I started it in 2013 but I've really been getting into it now that I'm a little less Gutted myself. I still find embroidery to be the fastest way to find peace.  I guess if I have a message for this post its just to keep on stitching.  Your whole world can be coming apart at the seams but if you just ...

Well it's been a while, a long while.  I've not quite found my voice or my vision yet but I haven't given up.  This piece is called Marmalade Skies and it was inspired by the Beatles.  When I think of marmalade skies I think of some sort of psychedelic dream.  Most of my work is inspired by some sort of psychedelic dream.  I get stuck when I change my vision and try to do work that will appeal to the masses coming from my slightly more than ordinary mind.  Stuck in the mud of brown and ecru and country red. Not that there is anything wrong with brown and ecru and country red but my heart sings for turquoise, orange and lime green.  Color wakes me up from the ordinary world of perfection that lies outside my window on a sunny day.  I can't compete with Gods vision.  I can't recreate the sound of the birds, the briskness of the air, or the snow glistening on the pavement. I can only march down the road of making my life more colorful.  Of ...

Hi All!  It's been a while but I think it's time to come back and try again so here I am.  I've missed all of you and missed writing too.  I've continued to make work and embroider and have a few tricks up my sleeve and lovely pictures to accompany them but that's for another day. It's very hard to admit that you've been stuck in 2 feet of snow in your mind.  But I've been stuck in two feet of snow in my mind.  My mind was so jumbled for a while, I couldn't really find my way out.  In the meantime I've made many beautiful pieces, found many beautiful friends both old and new, loved my beautiful son and added a dog to the mix.  I've got a lovely part time job doing work I really enjoy with people I enjoy doing it with. My life is so much better and I have so much to be grateful for. But writing on my blog was elusive.  It was a failure really. I guess when you are stuck in the negative mindset of your mind and everything you love becomes in yo...

I am so excited for my upcoming show of hand embroidered art  at Samantha's Café and Catering.  It is called Tied Up in Knots and features 14 pieces created with beautiful French knots.  The opening reception is this Thursday from 5 to 8.  If you happen to be in Glens Falls please come. I am busy making art and still having a bit of a problem writing my blog.  Thinking of  all of my bloggy friends and all of the wonderful artists whose blogs I have followed.  I hope to be joining you again soon.  Keep stitching.

I guess I don't have to tell you that my art and my writing has been sort of a slog lately.  For the last two years to be exact, I've been kind of lost in a world of loneliness and then overcompensating not to be alone.  Grateful to have met many good friends on the path of not wanting to be alone.  But it has interfered with my work, an artist really needs to be alone and ok with the isolation and loneliness that being an artist sometimes can bring.  I'm really trying to get used to that feeling.  Thanks in advance for reading this post hopefully it will be the first of many in my new life. Yesterday I went to the opening for the Fences Select Show in the Art Center of the Capital Region where I have recently rented an art studio and where Primal Scream was selected as one of 50 out of 300 entries.  It was very exciting and very humbling.  When it comes to meeting new people and carousing I am the life of the party.  When it comes to to...

The Long and Winding Road is being shown at The Shirt Factory Gallery in Glens Falls, NY during the Art of Accretion show.  The show runs from May 2 to May 31, 2014 with an opening reception this evening from 5 to 8 pm. The definition for Accretion is the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter.  Nothing describes my work, my life or this piece better.  Some day I will share the story about how this piece came to pass but for today I am excited and looking forward to an excellent opening. A beautiful show with the works of Robin Blakney-Carlson and Jeanne Noordsy two wonderful felt artists and Barbara Melville who does the most extraordinary hand embroidery. I have also rented an art studio in Troy NY making a commitment to myself and my work and looking forward to many new opportunities.  I am working on a new piece and will share updates to that and my upcoming future work and projects here on the b...

Strings of sunshine floating through the atmosphere, Suspended in the air causing the flowers to open, the trees to bud, A giant ball in the sky shining deeply in rays twisting and turning, Opening up for you and me and putting an end to the darkness in our souls and the ice in our veins, Somewhere a child is smiling, laughing, joyful, The umbrellas and snowshoes have been put away it is another day. The ice is melting, the rivers are flowing, And we smile and dance in the sunshine. Come with me now, dance with me, The big ball in the sky speaks to us, Come with me, dance with me.