Summer is Speeding Along

I thought I would get back to posting more about my time at Haystack, but I kept putting it off because I couldn't put that experience into words. Something happened there that is still evolving. Drawing on my ceramics showed me how deeply drawing is leading me to something new in my work. It's true what they say about going to Haystack...it ruins you for real life! I feel this hunger to draw and paint all the time......which is not my real life. But I am trying to balance things so that I stay connected to making art. Deb and Nanako opened a studio at their home in Arrowsic...Studio Pig and Fish. Deb's furniture and Nanako's jewelry and collages are currently for sale. A website is coming. And....we just ate dinner in the beautiful garden, including tomatoes from a vine Deb grew for us over the winter. Yum.

Haystack

I learned so much at Haystack. I took the ceramics workshop and made the plates and other things you see here. I loved learning to hand build with clay, and I followed what they were doing in the drawing workshop closely. Nature as the source is the biggest thing I learned. Just knowing that nature is the beginning and end of everything is what is so good and true about making art. The environment here is beautiful. To be fed and cared for while learning and sinking in to the experience of art is such a joy. More to follow.

Busy Days

I'm getting ready to go to haystack for twelve days! I'm taking a hand building ceramics workshop. Something different and out of my comfort zone. I've done a little hand building and I love it, and working with clay seems like an extension of drawing to me. We've been gardening and cooking too. And exploring color and pattern and drawing are always a refreshment.