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A little about my art…
Influenced by my grandmothers, I approach my work with a quilter’s eye. As a girl, I remember recognizing fabric squares that matched my handmade dresses and doll clothes—evidence that no scrap was ever wasted. To this day, I still curl up in their kaleidoscope comforters. Even though I never took up sewing, I have always appreciated a patchwork aesthetic, its thrift and the way it gathers disparate bits together into a new whole that is somehow more than the sum of its parts.
Collage continues to be a common thread in my work. I have been delving its abilities to reclaim, reveal and restore. I think there is something decidedly hopeful in the concept of re- or again because it means that, as Mary Saton once wrote, “Nothing that happens to us, even the most terrible shock, is unusable, and everything has somehow to be built into the fabric of the personality.”
(Recovering: A Journal 1978-1979)
A little about me…
I feel perpetually in process, with at least one pile of clutter that I’m not sure where to put. It both gives me anxiety and reminds me that I sometimes have to ask for help, that I sometimes need to ask better questions and that we all need grace.
I suppose you could say my job experience is as eclectic as my media. I’ve surveyed trees for the Forest Service, served coffee in the wilderness with no running water, taught K-12th art classes, managed large scale training projects for the Nature Conservancy and provided marketing, branding and design support for organizations. Graduating with a Fine Arts degree during a recession, taught me to be as creative with my career as with a canvas.
Today, with a toddler in tow and my student debt finally paid off, I am trying something new. What if I could take all of those experiences and create something all of my own…
Dabble Dally Draw
When I first started thinking about a business name to define myself as an artist, I had a hard time pinning down a single style, medium or concept.
A guiding mantra, or perhaps a posture toward my creative practice feels like a more authentic way to describe who I am and what I hope to make: Dabble Dally Draw. It is both an aspiration and the invitation I want to share.
Dabble
The freedom to play, to try new things, to make a mess or mistake
Dally
The permission to follow winding paths, to slow down and to not only focus on the destination
Draw
To make something of what I see and share it, because maybe someone else needs to see it too
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