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From the frantic urban life to the laid back life in the mountains it has been a learning experience. Maybe some of these musings will give you insight to an old hippie’s mind.
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After having an urban studio for decades I still am amazed every time I look out my window. My preferred hiking time is early in the morning, often just as the sun is rising but throughout the day it is an ever changing scene. I see bears, deer, coyotes and unfortunately armadillos. The young buck…
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Blue is my hiking mate. We have plenty of trails on the property so I try not to take her “off campus”. She is uncanny though, I sometimes sneak off without her and I’ll be waaaay back in the woods, off trail and she will come bounding up. She might run 15 – 20 miles…
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Most of these new prints have a textural quality that doesn’t show up well in photographs. To achieve this I slop a thick layer of acrylic medium on the print and do an ink wash over that after it dries. For Sorrow, For Mirth and For a Wedding are taken from the children’s counting crows…
Friend from France
May 25, 2026
I would like to expand a little on my first blog posting and the “meeting” of Sylvie Vey. I mentioned the receiving prints from France during Covid and how I found one of the artists that spoke English. By some odd chance they found my name and it went from there to an exhibit in Italy. In between there was a growing, if long distance, friendship through our gardens and our art. We exchanged art and seeds and kept up with each other’s daily lives. Our first collaborative endeavor was the print exchange, What Else?. Six printmakers from France, Belgium and Italy and six printmakers from America working on a common theme.
Later we collaborated on a piece for the Hambidge Art Center auction. It resulted in the work, To Reconnect With Our Humanity, a mixed media work using Sylvie’s handmade paper, a cyanotype I made from a vintage glass negative and letterpress. I’ve worked on collaborative pieces before but this was the first time separated from the other artist by thousands of miles of ocean.
We further worked together along with Sabine Cez and Simon Batani Bezzi to put together Rizomi, the exhibition in Casoli. We hope to continue our group exhibitions together, have the next exhibition in America then one in France.
Who’d thunk that opening the mailbox would eventually lead to sitting in a Pietrasanta, Italy square at midnight drinking wine and eating pizza with my children, Sylvie and her husband. Moral of the story is…. Check your mail, it might lead to wonderful things.
