Mirror for LoLa

I went to Corvallis for a wonderful visit with dear, dear Lola. I can now say I've gotten drunk with someone who used to drink with Bukowski: I have arrived. I am sharing this, because it is beautiful, even if it is on a cheap ass mirror, and it commemorates a lovely meeting of minds; I am almost tempted to move there, but space and timing are issues!
The slight nod to Haring is intentional.

Electric Blue

12" x 12" featuring bus shelter glass, broken 1950s cocktail glass, a jar bottom, stained glass scraps, cabochons, and other ephemera. On gold leafed wood.

Siblings: Fraternal Twins

A diptych of 12" x 12" pieces. Color fields of silver gilded  blue windshield glass, gold, silver and copper foiled clear glass. Ordered Chaos: What I do best.

Found Object Boxes

One old and one new. These are drawers from an old jewelry box.  The older one is a squirrel (my mortal enemies) mandible and a gold gilded glass heart. The other is a glass skull, found in the dirt near the tracks under the Hawthorne bridge, gilded with silver foil and placed in a box, lined in 1930s silk velvet.

Finally Finished this piece!

I posted the beginnings of this almost exactly 2 years ago. I finished it a few nights ago, basically just outlining some more silver foiled blue glass and painting with 3 shades of gold pigment on wood. I love the broken corner, and the intricate bead work, each placed on separately. 20" x 12" found wood background.

Seascape with Scallop Shell

Found wood, painted with gold pigment. Windshield glass gilded with silver foil. Freshwater and vintage pearls, scallop shell. 2012

Prison Panties!

Years ago (likely in 1998, given the stamp on the pants), I found these, discarded in a gutter near the Greyhound station in old town. It was pouring, but I picked them up with a stick, taking them home to boil them. They've languished in a box for over a decade. I mounted them in a box that looks like it could have been made in a prison workshop with industrial push pins. Apparently, these are no longer issued, so they are a collector's item of sorts. I can only imagine the woman who shed these, post release, tossing them into the gutter as a final "Eff YOU!" to Portland, Or., as she prepared to board a bus out of town. Ah, when old town was sleazy! *I do realize they are jail panties, but I am a sucker for alliteration.

 I don't usually do found art, but this was too good to not complete. Thanks to C & J for convincing me (with gin) to make this, finally. X

Haven't been posting, have been working!--UPDATED!

First new work photographed in awhile! I am all but finished. The edges will be painted with silver or gold pigment for a lovely antique patina, and then on to the huge landscape I will be spending the rest of the summer working shiny pieces into some kind of form.

Fritterlaries

I have a few pieces of wood shaped like halves of houses. Odd. Found this fascinating glass on a walk a few weeks back, and they looked ever so much like butterflies. Love the whimsy, which, I know, is odd for me! I photographed it on a skirt, which has dandelions and violets. Ah, spring!

bamboo

St. Lucy

Another icon. St. Lucy. I loved the stories of the virgin martyr saints as a girl. I am named for one, after all, but I love the eyes on the plate. In my version, the more beautiful eyes, which grown in, are brown, because so are mine.

This has nothing to do with Texas

This is an Oregon Yellow Rose. 3-d effect from broken baby food jar painted in gold pigment, green sea glass, fresh water pearls and a fake gold nugget complete the rose. Back ground is collaged and closely fit together gilded clear glass. No piece larger than .5" X .5".

new mirror

My attempt at "steam punk" for a dear friend.

PS: Dr. Jones: you are like a bad penny: you always turn up.

Our Lady of Guadalupe

Being a reformed Catholic school girl, I still love the Saints and Icons, and Guadalupe was always my favorite. I've been wanting to do this piece for my lifetime, and finally did. This is 3.5 ft X 2 ft, and the painting can be called "folk art" at best, I do like her hands; I spent some 8 hours just on them.

The red roses are glass painted with old nail polish.

Gallery Show--Pendleton Arts Center (NOT current)

This was a show I had at the Pendleton Arts Center, in Pendleton, Oregon, a few years ago. Once the library, this was housed in a beautiful Carnegie building with lots of natural light. It was a very successful show. I do not have photos of some of the work, sadly, nor most of the work, as the show nearly sold out.

The titular piece:

Detail--the center has small stones from a canyon in eastern oregon. This piece was meant to resemble a thunderegg.

Grid of 50 5 in x 5 in panels, each of the state flowers, represented in gilded glass and pearls, vintage jewelry pieces, and beach glass. I experimented with stained glass paint in this piece, and decided to never use it again; it is a gummy mess. I have no idea the current whereabouts of this piece. I suspect my former gallery forgot to give it back.

This was the first time I showed the piece The Secret Garden, a grid of 24 7in x 7in panels. I traded this piece for a painting by James Lavadour, who called this a masterpiece. My favorite is the gardenia, the bottom one, in the solo shots. Broken shell, shell, moonstone cabochon.

More pieces, the square panels are 12in x 12 in:

This was from a series of 4 pieces made from glass, etc from the formerly abandoned Hot Lake Sanitarium in La Grande. It is now a fancy spa, but it was a scary place when I visited. 2nd is a detail shot. Small circle is a tile from the tiled ballroom floor. I love the blue corrosion from the copper foil and the acrylic gel medium. It is a pity I cannot control it.

Architectural pieces using stained glass scraps from an elderly farmer hobbyist:

 Elegy for Frank Lloyd Wright:

 This one has a flower made from a smashed shell:

Abstract Orchid, glass from an old store in Pendleton.

Abstract color field: