CREATING A LITTLE MAGIC

I am attracted to and awed by all things wild and wonderful!  I think my art work embodies this love of enchantment and magical wonder, through an eclectic variety of art, doll sculpture, crystal orbs, and glass spirit vessels and other things  I love to create.  This week I have had fun, making beautiful magic wands!

The wands are made from driftwood, beach glass, crystals, glass tiles, beads and other found embellishments.  The seem to hold such powers of intention!

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CALLING ALL ANGELS

These photos are of a sculpture that I finished a few days ago.

When I started this one, I definitely didn’t have an angel figure in mind, however, she showed up when I was having difficulty deciding how to design the back of her.  I felt a mysterious urge to add wings and as soon as I did that, the rest of her effortlessly came together.

I named this piece, “Calling All Angels”, because that song by Jane Siberry, kept swirling through my head after I had added the wings.  I especially love the part that goes:

“Calling all angels,

Calling all angels,

Walk me through this one

Don’t leave me alone.

Calling all angels,

calling all angels,

We’re tryin

we’re hopin

we’re hurtin

we’re lovin

we’re cryin

we’re callin,

’cause we’re not sure how this goes.”

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No, we sure don’t know how it goes, do we?

I think the words in this song are even more profound, given what is happening right now to so many people on the planet and to our beautiful earth mother.  We definitely could use a little help, don’t you think?

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METAMORPHOSIS

I finished my latest sculpture and I have been inspired to call it, “Metamorphosis”, especially after reading this……. (written by a beautiful woman, named Pearl, from Magnolia Pearl website).

“As a woman, I believe we only get better as we get older.  However, there is a fragile time for women right before we evolve into our “soul power” stage.  I am 47 and it’s starting to become quite evident that A -something beautiful is about to happen or B – I might lose my mind.  I’m at a fragile place in life where I feel like a Monarch butterfly in a rainstorm.  The rain has washed all the powder from my wings leaving me raw and exposed to the elements and life.  Keeping my grace as a butterfly in this space is not easy, but I’ll find the closest flower, hang on tight and hope that the wind doesn’t carry me away.”

I think there are many women who feel this way, especially when women are in their forties or fifties, but what I have come to know is, that the “fragile” time she speaks of, doesn’t have to last long at all.  We only stay “fragile” until we make the decision to start setting ourselves free of anxiety and fear.  This is the best time to grow into our truest selves, by drop old ways of thinking and being.  A metamorphosis into loving ourselves and our changing bodies.

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A CREATIVE LIFE

Today, the learning curve on creating a new blog post, hit a few snags!  But I will perserver and hopefully posting pictures gets easier!   The following photos are  samples of the kinds of projects that have captured my interest over the last few years.

I love all the color and transparency of smooth fused glass……the more, the better.

Little spirit dolls, driftwood, bits of fabric, and a soulful message.

Over the years I have made so many dolls, I can’t even begin to count them.  I’ve enjoyed giving many “Soul Doll Workshops” in the past.  I loved watching women  discover their own artist within, through this intuitive art form process.

And then some times my creativity dips into paint and collage, and inevitably, the feminine face appears again…..

 My love of glass and sparkle returned in the form of what I call, “SPIRIT VESSELS”.  I am the kind of artist, that when I am inspired to make something, I don’t come up for air for weeks……or until I have made so many, I run out of space to put them!

A slight obsession with crown making and mannequin head painting took hold, and at times continues to still hold my interest….

 

More recently, I am engrossed in creating feminine figurative glass sculptures. This type of image making is so satisfying to me right now.  I feel that working on larger figures in this particular medium, has expanded not only my artistic confidence, but also my imagination.  Imagination is the deepest voice of my soul.  It always engages my intuition and opens the doors for an internal dialogue with my truest self.

The most important ingredient in my creative life is when I ask myself the question, “ is what I am creating, meaningful to me” and I am able to answer that, with a loud “Yes!”     Let’s inspire and help one another to live fully in our creativity… in whatever area that may be!

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