Our one-and-a-half-year-old loves bubbles more than anything else. He can stand outside blowing bubbles for hours and if we suggest changing activities or stopping for lunch, his response is always "more more bubbles!" I wanted to capture this love in…
As I was making Protective Instinct, a piece about sheltering our children from all the dangers in the world, I felt like the darkness was surrounding me and wanted to make a piece to combat those feelings. While I may…
At two, my daughter developed strong opinions about what she wanted to wear. The brighter the better! Now, at three-and-a-half, she still loves to mix patterns and colors. I wanted to capture her unique style in a piece, so I…
In my last blog post, I started explaining how my art piece about the instinct to protect our children came to life. In that post, you can read all about the inspiration and how I created the quilt with layers…
As a parent, especially of young children, my instinct is to keep them safe - to shelter them from everything. My kids are one and a half and three and a half. I don't want them to know there are…
One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in being a mother is guilt. It comes from so many different sources every day and it's exhausting. When I thought about how to depict this ubiquitous, and sometimes conflicting guilt for my parenthood series,…
I don't think I'm alone in feeling like I have put much of myself aside when I became a mother. At first, it was natural. Of course my child (and then children) were the center of my world. Everything else…
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the College Art Association and Women's Caucus for Art conferences in NYC. It will come as no surprise to those of you following my recent work that the two sessions that spoke…
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm starting a series about life as a parent and an artist. I started three different pieces during a week long workshop with Sandra Sider in late September and finally finished one of them.…
If you know me or follow my blog, it is no secret that I have been creating less art since my daughter was born three years ago and even less in the last year since my son was born. Over…