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| "Care for your creativity
--- Make time for art often" |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| My work............ |
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| I have no agendas in my
artwork. I work best when I'm happy, and while I do a
lot of black and white work, I love bright colors. Plants
and houses figure in much of my work, in both 2D and 3D. |
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| The four emphasis areas
of my art degree were in printmaking, textiles, metal
art, and art education. Most of my work in recent years
consists of doing more a mixed-media approach to art,
using printmaking as a base (especially monotypes and
collographs), with elements of other work that I've done,
in handmade paper, abstract painting, alternative photography,
and textiles, added to the mix. These "elements"
are also subjects I teach. |
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| I thoroughly enjoy teaching,
and have taught these techniques at my FOGBELT STUDIO
and in Bay Area schools and art centers since 1996. Besides
teaching classes, I've given demos of printmaking in local
collages, libraries, studios, and galleries. |
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| Bringing art and creativity
into the community is something I have always felt strongly
about. With other local artists living in the western
portion of San Francisco (Parkside and Sunset neighborhoods),
I founded Sunset Artists Society in the '90s, and was
actively involved for many years. |
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| In my own small Art Waves
Gallery (2005 - 2008) in the outer Sunset neighborhood
of San Francisco, just blocks from the beach, I was able
to provide Bay Area artists a place to rent space, show
a body of their work, host their receptions, and not pay
a commission fee to the gallery. For several of these
artists this was their first public art experience / exposure.
And the gallery provided the neighborhood (especially
young couples with children) as well as tourists and other
visitors a place to view, enjoy, and purchase good art,
affordable art. This was truly a dream of mine realized. |
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