This year we honor Raven
Arts Alive is an annual celebration of the arts and of artists. The whole town of La Conner participates. Artists come to demonstrate their craft.
I will be at  Earthenworks Gallery, 713 First Street, La Conner, Washington, on November 8 from Noon to 4:00 pm.

Growing up on a Salish reservation, Raven was […]

There were languages
soft shuush shushs
lilts and low notes
Birdsong and bear voices
A merging of people
carrying several northern cultures
They unfolded precious hardanger, spread them out under the sun.  They stretched hides between split alder.
Each as beautiful as the people, so different.
All embraced by firs, cedar, and the Pacific.
My childhood mind returns these sounds to me in odd […]

painting: The Wind Brought
watercolour, lacquer, collage elements
10 x 7 inches (image)

Ing : Fertile, creative
Painting: Deep Fertile, 7 x 10 inches
watercolour, lacquer on paper, collage elements

RAINFOREST
Alva, Arva
Arvi, Vouvdi
Arvirvouvdi
When the feminine energy
Slips down from the clouds
Slides through the trees
Walks among the forest
alva, arva : energy,   arvi : rain,  vouvdi : forest
arvivouvdi : rainforest
sami
Painting : Warm Frangrance
watercoulour, mixed media, collage elements
6.5 x 5 inches, from the small magic series

Silver on a weakened sea,
breaking apart, recombining, running sinuous in the troughs of a Neap tide
Neap : Neep (old English) weakened water, a time when the tides are in balance, between the full and new moons, when the gravitational pull is weakest.
Fishermen go out with longlines on the neap tide, and in the balanced pull […]

Golden light weaves through the forest, a guide for the senses.
I would like to express gratitude to those who have written wishing me well. It’s been a while since I have found time and energy together. Gradual progress.  I am pushing for a show at the Bellevue Art Museum next week. More on that to […]

Ullr is the soul bridge of winter, the timeless link between dark and light. Many are the animals who are part of the deep forest, dark night myths; reindeer, lynx, raven, wolf, coyote, animals who flow with the wind without barrier.

Original talisman, handmade of porcelain clay, leather & copper
Talisman is ~ 2 x 1 inches, […]

Ellie took this photo of me on the patio during our open studio. I am wearing an Ullr talisman - you can get a sense of scale.

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At right is another Ullr talisman.  They are each unique, handmade of high fire porcelain and leather. This group of talismans represent the animals who wander the branches of […]

The Tree of Life
is always
Rooted in the Heart
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I don’t remember where i first discovered this saying and imagery.  it turns up on old Swedish embroidery samplers. I’ve been using it for several years as a knitting pattern to create small bags to hold polished stones.
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Small magic
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The story behind the image is much older […]