Open Studio today and tomorrow 11-5

Good morning from the early morning June fog of Monument Road. In a few hours there will be some balloons on my mailbox should you be looking for the right country lane to turn into. I will have coffee and tea, wine and good clean water with lemon slices. A few little cookies to serve will be on the counter of the upstairs studio space.
I imagine this summer fog will be gone by 11 a.m. when the studio door opens. At which time I might be stitching on a few little 8"x8" pillows of silk or linen to offer some low priced items. Or perhaps I will be making scarves until someone ventures into these lovely redwoods and pops in the studio door.

You can park down by my residence which is an octagonal home my husband and I built in the early 80's. The when walking back to the studio, before climbing the exterior circular stairwell that is showing signs of rot, you will have passed the new wood shed built with lovely old resawn redwood.

This will be a relaxed day to enjoy a 'middle' Humboldt day which is never like the north end of Humboldt nor the south end. I rest absolutely in between as does my art. Unique to its environment, my home and art are one of a kind. My work is abstract with a gesture to landscapes and the internal music that effect my sensibilities every moment of the day.

I look forward to your visit today and tomorrow between 11 and 5. And should you not be able to attend today, you are welcome to call for a personal visit another time. 707-764-3877
Cheers and thank you for your attention....

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I will be open for one of the two announced North Coast Open Studios this year. This will be the second weekend of June. I will be presenting some watercolors, prints, some textile pieces (scarves, small items, and custom fabrics) and miscellaneous bits. If you are interested in visiting with me at that time please stop in. There is some handicap access but most viewing of art will be upstairs in the main studio. If the weather is nice the garden will be worth a browse. It is mostly a naturalized combination of beds and rough pasture with a few paths carved into it.
If you have any questions on how to get here please call me on the office number 707-764-3877.
It is 1.8 miles up from the main Wildwood Avenue of Rio Dell on Monument Road. There will be a metal sign on the base of my mailbox post... 1961.
Please look at
www.northcoaststudios.com for more information of that exciting and abundant weekend

Open Studio is from
June 8-9
Saturday and Sunday
11 am to 5 pm

Goodness,  a year has passed since I last wrote! It has been a busy year of travel, the birth of my first grandchild, and a good deal of projects on the studio's five acres. It seems a lot of my creative juices have gone to shingling the cabin/bath house, installing some art work into the garden, building vegetable beds, landscaping, and designing a beautiful woodshed using re-sawn old growth redwood.

But creativity takes all shapes and there has been new projects explored and begun:
a new printer for an in-house art and poetry book this year
painting and sketching using different mediums
planning an outdoor sculpture project that should be placed in the orchard ' 7 Torso's ' withn the next few years. This project will require some education on my part of casting torso forms and building the pieces from there.

A Little Showing this Friday April 20th @ 5-6 pm

 Have you ever been to Sedonna? Then you will know of Vortexes. It seems my life has been in a rather large one for awhile now. The art has been good that comes from that very sense of being pulled by some deep and strong electrical charge. This series is from the Arizona dozen I painted during a week there in January.

So... before summer arrives and the work leaves Eureka Art and Frame for my Open Studio on the second week of June, I decided to pour a little bubbly. Whether water or champagne, I hope you can come by before you go out on the town this coming Friday.... 1636 F Street, Eureka.    

If you miss that please find another time to go into Eureka Art and Frame's little gallery space and see what I have been up to. Heck, you can even buy them and take them home. This would give you a little Vortex for your own electrical charge.....

Eureka First Saturday Arts Alive this February 4th...Redwood Curtain Show

I will be at Redwood Curtain Theatre in Eureka, @2nd St in Old Town (adjacent to Aalfs, Evans and Co., 104 D Street) tomorrow night. I am showing work from the Paris show a couple of years ago. Framed textile pieces for their gallery space just inside the lobby. Please drop in. I should be there till 7:30 pm when I have to race over to the Morris Graves and support Demetri Mitsanas at his show. We must support one another!!

Remember to also look at the new work hanging at Eureka Art and Frame. Gabe has let me use his gallery space this winter/spring.... I will be getting my newest work from last week's Arizona visit framed and up there soon. Most importantly, please encourage your friends to go and visit. Of course it is all for sale and all under $500. Framed pieces $500, matted and shrink wrapped @ $300 and lower without either frame or matt.... Call me in the studio at 707-764-3877 for more information