gnomes

gnomes knitted for the school fair

skin on skin

ink and inktense pencil

Daphnes

Drawing groves of these.

abed

Most of my women are now awake, but some of them do not want to get out of bed.

ATHENA

Happy Halloween.

Ink and colored pencil. This is being given away in a raffle at the hospital this week, at our final "event", celebrating the 25th anniversary just as our doors are being closed. I am heartbroken. I have another job waiting for me, no big deal, but I am sickened by the idea of people ending up in Taunton State, or wherever, instead of being close to home where they have a much better chance of transitioning back to their families and communities....I also worry about the drastic reduction in community based services, a new DMH system where there is no oversight of community services, etc etc. These will be tough times for families struggling with severe mental illness in Massachusetts.

charcoal paper kidnaped by ink pen

what I've been doing with the "charcoal" paper....

Dancing Woman

It's one thing to find meaning and inspriation in stains and blots; it's a far more delicious thing to find a dancing woman in a spoonful of melty ice cream with chocolate sauce, as my daughter Edith did.

Laundry Day

This is "Laundry Day," photographed in my crit space June 09. A womanly creature experiencing the futility of clothing. She won first place mixed media in the Plymouth Guild's 42nd Annual Juried Show! I also have a drawing in the show, and my husband has two sculpture pieces which are fab (take my word, I have no images of them to post!).

The show opens 9/11/09, and on 9/12 (9/13 rain date) Plymouth is having its annual Art Stroll--this is Plymouth at its most charming, with artists and music out on the main street. Saturday mornings is also the day of the "junior-sized" Plymouth farmer's market, which is right in town as well and always has music. (For a bigger market, Thursday afternoons at Stephen's Field--a thriving local foods movement with music, tons of good food, etc). Lots of local businesses get into the art stroll thing, the UU church will be making Peace Flags in Town Square and everyone should see the fantastic Tiffany stained glass pilgrim windows in the church (big stone church at the top of the square).

Fear of Trees

Little book of images I made--the top image is the cover, the bottom is one of the interior pages. What are you afraid of?

July Art

Here is some new art. The top picture is from Fourth of July weekend, taking this mermaid out for a swim in PTown harbor. The next one is oil pastel on mi teints, whatever size that is, 16 in by something I guess. "Full Moon Glow." Next is "Asleep When the Tide Came In." It is 12 X 15, and is oil pastel on tin flag decoration, then scratched into. I have been drawing alot of sleeping women. It represents : sleep deprivation, desire to be ignorant of bad things happening, a visit to a deeper level of psyche, vulnerability, safety, time....

June 2009 residency pics

Drawings on two beautiful women -- classmates -- in my crit space June 2009. Cynthia's Goddess / Balance drawing may become a tattoo soon....Caroline's totem lizard is cosmetically hiding her faulty iris tatoo.