

How to Create Fire in Fiber Art Work
Dante wrote: "From a little spark may burst a might flame." Living in Northern California's notorious fire region, this quote by Dante is...
Nov 1, 2024


Emma FOREVER CHANGED my Life
SAQA Northern California/ Nevada had a call for entry to explore diverse facets of the question if and how we and our lives have changed...
Apr 15, 2022


Twelve Challenges: A Creative Response to Chaos
“Chaos” is defined as: complete disorder and confusion. Covid-19 created disorder and confusion world-wide. How do creative people react...
Sep 13, 2021


Inspired by Fractals
I’m not a mathematician, but I find certain concepts do inspire my work, for example, fractals. Many of the following quotes are from the...
Jul 23, 2020


Inspired by Kandinsky and Geometry
Geometry was always my favorite subject at school. Euclidian geometry is concerned with abstract perfection: circle, square, triangle,...
Jul 22, 2020


Inspired by Nature
Having to spend time at home due to the current virus means that I spent a lot more time in our garden. I noticed again how much nature...
Jul 19, 2020


Doing it Twice
Two years ago, I visited Mesa in Arizona for the first time. The dessert skies and landscapes have so much color and variety. They...
Nov 16, 2019


Leaving Treasure Island
Last year (while Peter was driving) I took photos crossing the Bay Bridge (San Francisco > Oakland, CA) which also rests on Treasure...
Feb 15, 2019


Creating an Art Quilt for Clara Foltz
(Caution: My longest blog post so far) (Photo by Visual Simplicity) Seems to me that Clara Foltz and I lived next to each other for a...
Dec 6, 2018