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About the Artist
About the Artist
Age: Just turned 54 years old. (Yep, that's me in the logo above).
Married: Happily for thirteen years to third and dare I say final husband.
Children: Son Ian 30. He married in February of '06 so now I have a beautiful red headed daughter in-law Sarah. Here they are when we went to Santa Fe. And of course my 4-legged son (my Cardigan Corgi) who is currently covering from cancer surgery. ADDED: Our poor dog finally succumbed to his illness. We miss him terribly. We waited awhile and then decided to adopt a rescue dog from Helen Woodward Animal Center. He's part Chihuahua/Rat Terrier, and is a real lovable dog. Well, at least to us. He's quite a four legged doorbell!
Inspiration: Grandma Moses or anyone old finally pursuing a passion. It's never too late to figure out what you want to do when you grow up.
Loves: Gardening, art expression of any kind, and anything to do with the computer. I host the SCSI Library, one of the Virtual Libraries in the WWW Virtual Library System, and was involved with the FOLDOC project, and I design Websites as a hobby.
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Art: I tell people I paint in tile and grout. I tend to work very large, and my work is bold and colorful. My pieces are simple and whimsical with a focus on animals. I love to create mosaics on old windows or doors, which can be used as garden art due to their durability and intensity of color. I started doing mosaics about fourteen years ago when my husband and I moved into our present home. I have several of the original pieces in the backyard and they have all withstood the test of time. The majority of tiles I use in my work I buy or find locally, and then break them up with a hammer on my side patio. I'm sure my neighbors are confused about the noise and can't figure out why I keep smashing things. I love how tactile this medium is, and how satisfying it is from start to finish.
Footnote: Waking up sick after the New Year in '98, I coughed up blood for the next nine months. Being only 42 years old at the time and not a smoker, this came to me as quite a shock. So through the middle of a large garden project, I had bronchoscopies, soil deliveries, angiograms, planted flowers and waited for the bleeding to stop, but it never did. Finally in September of '98 I had one-third of my lung removed. During surgery and apparently from complications of my kyphoscoliosis and now diagnosed osteopenia, my upper thoracic spine was broken in two places and a lower disc was ruptured, oddly enough this was more painful and harder to recover from than the lung removal. I realized that the garden project was not going to progress in any type of timely fashion and that life loves to test me. I've had to learn patience and accept my limitations, and it's been hard.
Update, 2006: I was hoping all of this was behind me but unfortunately I just got diagnosed with bloodclots again. Hopefully this time I will only be on Coumadin short term. 2007: sigh, it just never ends, now I need another heart cath to determine if I have secondary pulmonary hypertension.
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