February Art Giveaway!

This month's art drawing is an original cyanotype print on cotton sateen, mounted in a schoolhouse chart style with natural driftwood & antique silk ribbon. Botanical elements & antique lace pair gracefully in this composition to honor Mother Gaia's abundance and the beauty women's hands have woven for generations.

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The first exciting changes of spring, like the river thawing out (thereby washing up new treasures!!) brings a wave of excitement long before anything green is popping.

What are the earliest signs of Spring that bring you joy?

#waterwomen
#wellwithin
#naturelovers
#vermonthistory
#sacredfeminineenergy

Waiting on the bus. Feeling the Friday vibes.

#moondoggie
#pibblesofinsta
#bestiegirl

One tiny envelope of seeds, ALLLL the big feels.

#startingseeds
#blackholyhock
#georgiaonmymind

I knew about ritual inherently at a young age: That engaging the elements with our questions or struggles would yield results.

I got in trouble for playing with fire as early as age 6. By then I’d been told horrific (family) tales of being burned in a tragic accident. It was horrifying, and I had no way of processing and no support around the idea.

I didn’t know then that I carried soul-level distress about burning. Remembrance, that is.

But gnosis, a natural knowing & inner ‘North Star’, is in us at birth and in my case, by 6, I was engaging it. This looked like sneaking off with matches, collecting twigs and building my own little fires behind my favorite boulder in the south pasture.

I didn’t know then that I was trying to befriend what I had been made afraid of. And it worked.

Years later I still play with fire as a means of moving through distress and getting more insight around my questions.

Highly recommend.

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#creativewellness
#innerjourney
#artheals
#rituals

✨ Joyful throwback: This might be my favorite dress pattern of all time.

An original early 1950’s sewing pattern, part of my collection forever, I made this one from original 50’s novelty cotton in an Asian motif with gold metallic details.

I love this dress for its halter neckline, gathered bust & practical wrap-around style.

Fun throwback from an era where I did a lot more sewing. Here’s hoping for more of those days in the near future once I’m settle this next time!

#dressmaking
#1950sfashion
#slowfashion

Art drama. Violet vibes. Palette work & material selection = pure flow. What to make?

#tetlxtileartist
#botanicalart
#cyanotypeprocess

Art journaling with watercolors. Longtime favorite ❤️

#artjournaling
#creativewellness
#metaphorical

Luna likes to help.

#textileart
#dogsofinstagram
#vintagetextiles

Winter wonderland today. Not all it’s cracked up to be (yet) but I don’t mind a day at home taking crisis calls, going for little jaunts in the snow, making soup & making art.

Suits us just fine!

#february
#winterinvermont
#artistsoninstagram

📖 Throwback / Story time: this is a narrative stitching panel I did as part of a series the year I was 41.

I created a new textile art panel each week (like collaging with fabric) addressing something that I was dealing with, encountering, processing, and sometimes surviving.

From my career as a therapist, I know that getting a cohesive narrative about your own experience is essential to wellness & healing. When things are stored haphazardly (inside) they’re harder to carry.

One of the things that can hang people up is not being able to make ‘The Things’ come out in a sensible order.

The Things don’t always like to cooperate. ‘Darn you, Things!!’ (Shakes fist in air).

This kind of project lets The Things come out at will, then we can sort them out further or draw links between them later.

It also gives us reflection points for later contemplation.

THIS ONE:

This panel depicts a beautiful gray fox that I encountered one day while out running. I encountered her in a cemetery near my home, one day after 5 of my 6 chickens disappeared.

When we met suddenly (just feet apart), she began to run away, then stopped, hiding behind gravestones and peeking at me curiously for about 15 minutes.

I realized, through some further investigation, that she had a den full of babies nearby in the edge of the woods. She was right across the street from home and certainly the culprit of my missing chickens (see the copper feathers falling down around her!).

We were in oppositional positions, she and I. We both had mouths to feed. We both sought to do so with the chickens.

There was a clear victor (not me) and yet she remained curious toward me and strangely engaged when I encountered her the next day.

Stranger still, I began to see gray foxes, relatively unusual where I live. I saw them frequently for a couple of months, as is the pattern when wild animals come bearing messages… what was her message? (Continued in comments) ⬇

POV: when the first whiff of Spring hits….

Lol… a throwback to my days with Cleo, who was such a House Hippo with occasional “outburst” moments like this. She loved the sand at the beach and often couldn’t contain her glee.

I’m working on an embellished jacket with some favorite photos of her, and it’s been fun (see cover). More soon!

I did catch just a whisper of Spring yesterday - a muddy path with squishy noises. More snow this weekend, I guess, but the ball is rolling.

Almost time sugar season in Vermont!

#pibblesofinstagram
#cleothetherapydog
#naturelovers

❄️ Relishing in a snow day, pulling textiles from my collection for a new project.

Worldly vintage textiles + Michaels enthusiasm = a great day ;)

#textileart
#slowfashioninspo
#theofficeclips

Strawberry leaves: Gathered in the fall, patterned in the winter. More fun practice ✨

#botanicalart
#patterndesign
#artskills

If you didn’t know… I’m a bit of a bleeding heart, AND I always seem to find those creatures in need.

Even in a snowstorm dropping a foot a of snow… yep, there’s a spider in need of rescue. Sigh.

We did our best with this guy, but we’re unsure if he landed in a safe spot.

We did our best. Good luck, buddy!

🕷️

#allcreaturesgreatandsmall
#naturelover
#botanicalartist

More practice. So much fun… ♥️

#patterndesign
#surfacedesign
#botanicalart

My kind of screen time. Pulling colors for more practice work from a favorite photo of my Dahlias.
❤️✨🌸

#botanicalart
#patterndesign
#artistsoninstagram

I’ve been having fun with pattern work this past week or so.

Switching over to some cyanotype & embellishing today, but pleased to be strengthening my Illustrator & Procreate skills.

Might’ve also bought some rainbow foil flakes yesterday for a new experiment… it’s hard to narrow down what to do with a day off & a snowstorm.

Go out to play in it, of course…. But other than that, stay tuned!

#vermont
#snowday
#surfacedesign

One of my VERY favorite silk dye projects from some years ago: a gorgeous array of violet & plum shades on sueded silk charmeuse.

#silk
#handdyed
#violet

The Goddess of Compassion & the Violet Flame… ✨I RECOGNIZE. I SEED✨

This is my third full year of traversing the Goddess Archetypes of the Thirteen Moon Mystery lineage, welcoming a new one each moon.

The Goddess of Compassion sees every face as her own, and reminds us that self-compassion, self-forgiveness & radical acceptance are all portals to powerful growth (rather than weakness, as the prevailing ways of the last 2000 years would imply).

Each time I sit with this archetype, I find so much that needs attention within me. Recently, it’s been a much deeper, more transformational degree of acceptance.

To RECOGNIZE is to see with full clarity what is.

To SEED is to cultivate what can now be with the benefit of that clarity.

compassion, of course, is essential in this process because rejection, shame, and self denial, directly obstruct what IS, or they seek to change it by force.

A seed doesn’t grow at gunpoint.
It grows in safety. In sun. In warmth.

What within you needs more safety, sunshine & warmth to evolve through love?

#sacredfeminineenergy
#archetypes
#selfcompassion

𝑨𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕: shape-hunting, evolved!

Here’s a bit of practice-work I’ve been doing in pattern design, learning from the delightful and brilliant @bonniechristine 💛

I have so much to work with but using found-objects from nature, which I scan in and vectorize, to be SO satisfying.

Here’s to more co-creation with Mother Nature, and many more patterns to come!

Bonnie’s full course, Immersion, begins soon (and just once each year). If you’re interested in learning this entirely addictive skill set, have a look!

#botanicalart
#patterndesign
#naturelovers
#textileartist
#surfacepatterndesign
#creativewellness

Violet Vibes. These Foxglove were a favorite perennial at my last home. They were so well established when I sold the house, they grew almost as tall as me.

Here’s to a year of new perennials in 2025 ! 🌸🌼🪻

#violet
#compassion
#goddessofcompassion
#foxglove
#perennials
#botanicalartist

✨I SURRENDER • I RECEIVE✨ Great Mother.

#sacredfeminine
#morningpractice
#sacredpractice
#gaia
#greatmother
#communionwithnature
#sacredcreative

Loving a warmer day, zooming through slushy trails.

#vermont
#winterfun
#pittiesofinsta

✚ When I talk about ‘shape-hunting’ this is what for: digitizing nature’s own structures & silhouettes.

Scanning & cleaning up the shapes while also pulling colors from a favorite photo of my Fur-child to build a palette.

#adobeillustrator
#patterndesign
#surfacedesign

A favorite from the archives: a midcentury chinoiserie barkcloth panel in a stunning and unusual color-way.

#vintagetextiles
#surfacedesign
#surfacepatterndesign
#midcenturyhome
#textileart

Missing my studio today, but grateful to be doubling down on what’s next 💛 Nostalgia + visioning = ?

That’s okay. Today’s a 24 hour run w/my crisis clinician hat on before 80 blissful & creative hours off.

#artistsofinstagram
#textileart
#expressiveart

The Alchemical Goddess:
I am Freedom,
I am Union,
I am Grace.

I felt her more deeply this year, as we closed it out, in a strong sense of distillation + more potency. And in a massive surge of creative energy.

Now into Great Mother, I am grateful for the 13 Moon Mystery tradition, and so ready to traverse the year with the 13 Goddess Archetypes again.

#sacredfeminine
#artistsofinstagram
#morningpractice
#sacredpractice
#thirteenmooncalendar
#naturalcycles

This week I dug my antique Irish linen out. Added a little potassium ferricyanide + ferric ammonium citrate… then some botanicals, UV rays & the indelible Frida Kahlo.

This photo was taken by her father, Guillermo Kahlo, when she was 21.

Times are tough out there, my loves. If you have any capacity to create beauty, meaning & wonder right now, it is, in fact, the antidote.

So please do.

#cyanotype
#textileart
#fridakahlo
#revolutionarywomen
#botanicalart

✨ Day 1: Experimenting with Eco-printing! ✨Stay tuned for results…

#ecoprinting
#botanicalart
#irishlinen
#handwoven
#makermovement

Feeling pulled upward more color in my cyanotype work lately… the blue & sepia tones are traditional, but a company called Jacquard also makes a pre-mix product called ‘Solarfast’ that comes in a range of fun colors.

The process is a little different but if you’ve been exploring with cyanotype & want to try other colors, you can!

The piece shown is using Solarfast in the shade ‘Violet’ on silk using botanicals & paper cuts, and addresses the experience of dissociation.

;)

#botanicalart
#cyanotype
#textileart

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