Anonymous Woman

The next few blog posts in this series will be about preparing and hosting the opening for my exhibition Anonymous Woman, which is running at the Shenkman Arts Centre in Orléans, Canada from Nov 28, 2019 – Jan 7, 2020. When I applied for exhibition space via the city of Ottawa, I was living there…

Sharing the process and journey behind the finished product pays testament to the love, care, and time that goes into each work. If you want to learn more about Peg and the other women of the Anonymous Woman series, get started here. If you’d like to own this work honoring the legacy of women before us, don’t…

Sharing the process and journey behind the finished product pays testament to the love, care, and time that goes into each work. If you want to learn more about Barbara and the other women of the Anonymous Woman series, get started here. If you’d like to own this work honoring the legacy of women before us,…

Sharing the process and journey behind the finished product pays testament to the love, care, and time that goes into each work. If you want to learn more about Ruth and the other women of the Anonymous Woman series, get started here. And don’t forget to sign up (it’s free) to become part of the…

Embroidery as a word originates from the French word broderie, which means embellishment. In the earliest days of man, we can find evidence of embroidery. Fossilized clothing from 30000 BC shows decorative stitching in boots, clothing and hats. In Siberia, archaeologists have found shells that had holes drilled into them and then were stitched into…

Artist Insights is a series where I answer questions from members of the community. Recently I was asked, My question regards perfectionism. Have you dealt with so — and if so — what do you do to overcome? Sarita, this is a great question, thank you for asking it. If you are regularly visiting my…

Since the beginning, gold leaf has been about adorning and honoring important objects and people.

I have a confession: I talk to my paintings. It sounds weird I know. But it’s the trick I’ve used to be spontaneous and somewhat unplanned in my art. I start with an image in my mind. Usually I catch a glimpse of an artwork in that time just between awake and asleep as I’m…

The first time I remember impressing someone with my art was in the 5th grade. I attended Avon Elementary School and my teacher was Mrs. Codner, a teacher who appropriately loved fishing. She tied A LOT of her lessons back to fishing, so it’s no surprise we had a lesson about carp. I don’t remember…

I found myself on the US National Archives looking at photos of Frida Kahlo, Rosa Parks, and Amelia Earhart as I started to build a series of artworks of these recognized women. That’s when I came upon another set of images. I found black and white photos of women from the 1940s. Some were cabbies.…

Setting Up Anonymous Woman

Process: Peg

Process: Barbara

Process: Ruth

The Origins of Embroidery

Artist Insights: How do you deal with perfectionism?

A Brief History of Gold Leaf

I have a confession…

How a few sparkly sequins shifted everything

None of these women had names