A few years ago, Beverly Kocenko of Liberty Graphics approached me to ask if I might offer the rights to print one of my block printed designs on a T-shirt. Liberty Graphics is well-known for their commitment to earth-friendly printing practices, quality materials and really fun designs. So of course I said, “Well, YES!” Located…
A new design always begins with a drawing, or a painting. Or several of both. A few weeks ago, when I began playing with design ideas for a 2021 Holiday print, I created numerous watercolor sketches in a sketchbook I keep for surface designs. Once I’d landed on some shapes I liked, I carved them…
In early, dreary, March of this year, when we were all still swimming upstream; feeling like life would never return to normal, grasping human contact wherever we could get it, and waiting for our turns to be vaccinated, I got a call from a writer for Edible Maine magazine telling me she was writing a…
January 2021 My mother told me that from the time I was a very little girl I was always making something. Day and night, I perpetually had a project going; leaving behind a mess of cut paper or a bedspread stained with paint. And nothing made me happier than when my Dad would bring art…
The design of each of my towels and table linens reflects my verve for color and for functional objects representative of good design. My work is inspired by a life-long passion for the natural world – by nature’s colors, patterns and form. I consider myself a researcher of ecology: studying closely, then rendering what I see….