This is one of my "Lose all track of time" pieces called Butterfly Time

SOLD

World Window Butterfly 

acrylic on canvas

     6"x6"

Midnight Butterfly

acrylic on canvas

       6"x6"

      $250.

This butterfly painting is available now through me at matterofyes@comcast.net.  The butterfly painting  below is a little bigger at 10"x10" and will be available at the Museum of Northwest Art on Saturday June 15, 2013 www.museumofnwart.org

Butterfly and Orange Blossom

          acrylic on canvas

                10"x10"

                   $400.

This painting will be available at the MUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART in La Connor in June...more info on the exact dates to come...

Vase of Consciousness
acrylic on canvas
     4"x4"

JEWELRY
I began making jewelry during a time when I was too ill to paint work larger than a postage stamp.  I received a container of broken watches from a friend who said "I think you can do something with these" and I did.  I took the broken parts inside of the watch out and replaced them with tiny, hand-made paintings of birds, bees, butterflies and many other favorite images and now those works have been added to the collection of handmade art. 
THESE I call mindful watches. They helped me to be mindful instead of watchful and lose all track of time.

I do a few other jewelry related items as well that are also upcycled works using bits of chain, beads that have long lost their bracelet and many other found objects.  I hope to offer these soon.

Hummingbird mindful bracelete      SOLD

Happy Tuesday...

My current group of paintings are called “paintings from beyond the hedge.”

Your average European village, in times gone by, was surrounded by a hedge or woods. Beyond that hedge was unknown land, beyond their known perception... i.e. the Other World, a world of myths.  In my work I feel a sense of painting that other world.

Michael de Ming said it well...."Myths, like alchemy, and like art, are attempts to catch a glimpse of the undiscovered country.  They take everyday existence and transform it into something remarkable.  It is through these stories that misfortunes are transformed into adventures, attractions are transformed into everlasting love, and the process of life and death is transformed into a magnificent mechanism that operates beyond our line of sight." 

Dragon Guide

acrylic on canvas

     5"x5"

     $225.