Embroidered Collage

If you look around my webpage today you may notice something strange - a great deal of nothing!  I removed my galleries, my information pages, even the archives for this blog.  Much of it will be back in a different form, but right now I'm starting over.

I am taking a different approach to my art, so my blog and website will reflect that.

During the last few years I've been on a fantastic journey that began when I realized I didn't need to draw realistically to create art.  I've played with mail art, explored techniques, and discovered my preferred media.  I've exhibited work in juried shows, marketed my art, and sold a few pieces.

But the road took a turn at the end of 2007.  I decided I had other goals than making my art a profitable business.  Then, my first child, a daughter, was born, which reduced and changed the nature of my available time.  As a result, I have had to redefine what I want from my art.

I will still create.

But I will approach it with the attitude of a student, considering my creations primarily as experiments and samples and sketchbook exercises.  I want to grow in my artistic ability and as much as making art for sale motivated me it also constrained me.  I want to reach a point where I can create works closer to what I imagine, then return to exhibiting and promoting my art some years in the future.

In the meantime, I will be keeping this blog more as an electronic sketchbook.  It may not change what you see as a reader, but it changes the way I view the endeavor.  I will still be listing what I consider my best pieces on etsy and potentially attempting to exhibit them, but that will not be my focus.  I actually expect to create a number of bitses that aren't complete artworks in and of themselves but that I may incorporate into larger works later.

I'm excited to see where this next phase of my art journey takes me.

Coming up next - some of the embroidered watercolors I created while I wasn't blogging....