Just back from 8 days on Edisto Island, and a much needed rest. Very cold... snowed on the beach, but still wonderful to get away and relax. Camping brings me back to nature and the coast brings me back to Spirit. There is nothing like the beach in winter, and I was lucky enough to go shelling on an island where the only footprints were mine and my friends. What a joy!
I am a green artist!!
I’ve been one all along,
before it was cool or trendy –it just took me awhile to realize it!
Growing up in the South, I was taught to be thrifty and frugal. Nothing was discarded if it had even an ounce of life left. Clothes, tools and toys were passed down; we even saved foil and rubber bands! I am to this day unable to be wasteful, perhaps explaining my reluctance to take anything to the trash.
When I discovered Mixed Media Collage as an art form I knew I had found my calling, an outlet for my creativity and a purpose for all my “found and saved” objects.
Through collage I have the opportunity to transform the mundane into the sublime, the discarded into the collectable, and the unappreciated, tossed aside parts of life into beauty. I see art in almost any object. When my trash becomes art the transformation is magic. Green magic!
I look at trash and see possibilities - I guess this makes me an optimist.
All I know is when I am in my studio creating my art, time stands still - I guess that makes me an artist. There I said it. Please look at my work and smile...That is why I do it