“undine”
10”x10”
Handmade Wool Felt Assemblage
Dyed wool, cotton floss, vintage shell buttons, brass thread, mohair locks, sari silk, silk chiffon
Details: Hand dyed wool, silk chiffon, and mohair embellished and needle felted on linen canvas. Upon a background of sea and sky, the water creatures play
2024
“faith.”
12”x12”
Handmade Wool Felt Assemblage
.Dyed wool, cotton floss, linen canvas backing
Details: Hand-dyed fibers. Using acid dyes I create custom colors for my palate. The sky background is wet-felted wool with cotton floss hand embroidery. The wool feathers are individually hand cut and needle felted in place. The hear is cut from a piece of wet-felted wool, embroidered with cotton floss and stitched into place. My heart has been on a difficult journey. Faith in myself reliably gets me through. I reach deep inside and continue to move forward, onward and upward. On display at the Louisville Art Association Spring Show, April 2023.
2023
12”x12”
Acrylic on Canvas
Most everyone around Boulder has heard of “Chief Niwot’s Curse.” That you can never leave Boulder, or if you do, you will be fated or doomed to return. Not quite. Not at all.
Niwot (Left Hand) was leader of the Southern Arapaho People until his murder in 1864 at the Sand Creek Massacre.
He negotiated in good faith with the White Leaders.. It did not end well for him, or his people. The White Settlers are still coming to this valley. And now they can see its beauty through the windows of their million dollar homes.
Niwot is an astonishing and UNDER APPRECIATED historical figure. He and his people are at the heart of the deeply unfair and MISREPRESENTED history of Boulder and the state of Colorado. What did he really said when the first prospectors came to the Boulder Valley and refused to leave? “People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.”
2022
“The Undoing of the Beauty”
2021
effloresce
1. to burst forth into or as if into flower; bloom
Mixed media fiber art piece with dolls,
Approx 24x24x6”.
After a year at home we are ready to bust out!
I moved to the Louisville/Lafayette area just months before COVID-19 lockdown. In a new town without the opportunity to meet folks, I spent the pandemic in isolation with my cat, Kitty McCree. We are really glad to bust out, meet all our new friends and say hello.
[This piece debuted at the Louisville Art Association Summer Member Show at the East Simpson Coffee Company in Lafayette Colorado July 2021..
My contribution to the oeuvre of “Covid Art”
Technique Details: handmade felt using dry needling and Nuno wet felting techniques. Felt materials: hand dyed wool fiber (Merino, Gotland), silk fiber and silk chiffon. Hand sewn figures materials: commercially woven cotton cloth, commercial wool felt, hand dyed wool locks, polyester and cotton thread.
