This piece came out of a desire to acknowledge and support our Health Care Workers. I had a full time job till this fall and which begins again in a couple months. I have had time and energy to dedicate to this project as a volunteer and donations from JL’s Home Hardware Building Centre and [Read more about Protecting Us…]
I will be donating 20% of my New Bee cards to TreeMobile, a volunteer not for profit group that delivers a great selection of affordable fruit trees and food bearing plants to urban growers. I think the bees would approve of my choice of charities.
Art on the Street, Guelph’s art sale and exhibition, is going online for 2020! Beginning, Saturday June 20th at 10am. There are some fabulous artists. This is a local show for me and my first virtual show too, so I’ve created some new work and a Special for this show! Free pick up or delivery anywhere in [Read more about Virtual Show,…]
Why bees? I have been drawing them since my glass studio had a flood in the spring of 2019 and I had to temporarily retreat to the kitchen as an art space. I found that drawing bees fills me with calm. It allows me to reflect upon their importance in the world. They have amazing [Read more about Bees on…]
I was reluctant at first, to make a heart. I felt like there were enough people already making them. But then there was my first meeting with my son’s teacher. I just knew it could be a bit stressful and I hoped the teacher would be kind to me and see that I was there [Read more about Hearts! …]
Come see my lasted piece at the Wellington Museum & Archives on February 9th at the opening of Tarot Lovers A little history…The Tarot Lovers: This is how I came to create this imagery. In the 1500’s, the Tarot cards were used to play a card game similar to bridge or euchre, where [Read more about Star Crossed…]
Exciting news, an image of one of my mermaids was published in my favorate glass magazine. https://www.theflowmagazine.com/ As you probably know, mermaids have long fascinated and terrified me. I love being in water and the idea of being able to breath and explore freely, thrills me, but there is something unsettling about the cold and [Read more about Mermaids …]
Barbra Byrce designed this piece for the Guelph Civic Museum’s Exhibit “Remembering In Flanders Fields” The poppy petals, flowers and buds are flameworked, she has wanted to do a collaborative piece for two years now and I’m glad she pulled me into this awesome project. Pod: This is an ongoing theme of mine, as I am [Read more about In Flanders…]
Next Weekend! The bead show is one of two shows I’m doing this fall. It’s always great and is located at the Best Western across from the University. There are some great classes with Cindy Goldrick, she always shows me something super cool and I love what ever I end up making. Naomi Smith, of [Read more about Grand River…]
What a whirl wind weekend this was! I loved every minute of it. Wish I’d had time to write a diary at the time instead of editing the flood of memories. I was so excited that about Roger Paramore’s demo and when I went to the information desk, they told me I had to go to [Read more about Corning Museum…]