I just completed photographing the new collection of heart paintings. They are encaustic and collage, 5″ x 7″ on hardboard mounted on 9″ x 12″ chalkboard and framed.
Photographs do not do them justice. They are really vibrant in person and so full of texture.
It was three below zero in Syracuse today. I did not visit my favorite trees on a hike – I draw the line at eleven degrees, thanks.
I spent the day completing my encaustic trees collection. These paintings are 6″ x 8″ encaustic & collage mounted on 11″ x 14″ chalkboard, and framed.
I added oil pastels, vintage stamps, keys, embroidery floss, checkers, cedar chips, ribbon, 1963 pennies and French bobbins – from France!
I am so in love with them. It is such a weird feeling – so happy to have completed them, proud of myself and the choices I made, but also sad that it is over.
I feel like I should expand the series. I created twenty-four of them, twenty-four different tree shapes. Do I make twenty-four more with twenty-four different shapes? Do I reuse the shapes and change the colors, as I did with the lotus collection? I don’t know yet.
I don’t even have a plan for where I will exhibit them. I am scheduled to show at the East Syracuse Free Library this May through June, so, maybe there.
I am actually still waiting for a back order of frames (four are technically not framed – I just set them in a broken frame in order to photograph them). Once they get delivered, all the paintings will be stored away and I will vacuum and reclaim my living room floor, and my dining room table – until the next project presents itself. <3
Mint and Vintage are not for sale – Jamey damaged Mint during a zoomies incident. I ordered supplies to fix it. Vintage is hanging on the wall in my stairwell.
The rest of these paintings belong to other people. I know that one of them is in the collection of Janine and Paul Opel but to be honest, I don’t remember who purchased the other ones. I really need to keep better records once I make a sale because it is important for the collector to have the provenance.
With that said, please let me know if you have one.
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If you are in the vicinity of Little Falls, New York, there is a little festival happening this weekend (Dec 12, 13, 14, 2025). In addition to the activities listed, the shops are open during their regular hours through Christmas.
I have two paintings for sale at Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts, 410 Canal Place, Little Falls, NY. They created a show of work priced at $100 and below to encourage art enthusiasts to purchase art as gifts for the holidays and to buy local.
You will be getting a deal because these are normally $125! They are from my first horse series created in 2012 – encaustic & collage, 12″ x 12″ mounted on 18″ x 18″ chalkboard painted masonite.
This is happening….
Thirty-six more paintings are currently in progress! I’ve created twelve more stencils, traced them onto the beeswax prepped hardboards and added the paper collage component to all of them. I introduced Monopoly money to this series. Using game pieces in my artwork is my favorite device.
I trust my living room rug is not horribly distracting. I wanted to do a quick update on The Lotus Series. I want to say they are finished – or I will say they are curing, resting on my dining room table so that I can look at them every day. Do they need more or can I put this series to rest? (That’s me asking myself, by the way).
I am delighted with them. And the beeswax is intoxicating. They smell good! My last series, Fan – Girl, ended up being this crazy six dozen strong group of 8″ x 8″ paintings. These are 8″ x 10″. Do I make thirty-six more?
I used to paint one dozen units in a series. Then it was two dozen, six dozen and now three dozen. While the fans were a dozen each of one shape, these are three each of a dozen shapes.
I will photograph them individually; maybe I’ll do that tomorrow. They are already titled too. I’d love to get them framed but that will have to wait until I decide whether or not I will continue the series.
Decisions, decisions….
So glad I documented my progress! I love seeing the evolution of the process. Some of the pieces were reworked quite a bit and others were pretty much nailed from the start. The paintings seem to tell me what they want; what they want to be/wish to be. It’s a vibe.
Does it look like I was at the Fayetteville Free Library (300 Orchard Street, Fayetteville, NY 13066) for six hours installing this art exhibition? The hard part was organizing the apparatus then deciding what to put where. Of course, my desire to have these 8″ x 8″ encaustic paintings at the same height, same distance apart was the most challenging part.
I’ve installed many art shows in my life but this one is up there as one of my most satisfying triumphs. It’s fan-tastic.
I am so pleased with the way everything looks. I feel like I manifested a dream because it is such a perfect fit and placing seventy-two paintings in one place is no easy feat. There are three sections: the wall space that goes up the ramp and into the gorgeous community room filled with Stickley furniture, the space around the corner, which leads to the juvenile literature section and the stunning area around the fireplace.
There were not enough hooks to hang everything. Luckily, I have these beautiful mission-style stands and was able to place the remaining paintings on top of the mantle, the book shelves, a piano and two tables. The result is this homey atmosphere and by that I mean the paintings are very much at home with Stickley, as I am a mission oak kind of girl, as well as a Fan-Girl.
The show is called Fan-Girl.
I will do an artist talk on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 from 5:00-7:00 PM. This exhibition will conclude at the end of July. See their web-site for hours of operation. The library will be closed on holidays and I think closed on Sundays during the summer.
All artwork is for sale.
