PAINTED BUNTING

COXCOMB FABRIC

NEW ORLEANS SATSUMA MARMALADE

Satsuma fruits make the most delicious, tangy marmalade.  We picked them from my daughter's backyard satsuma tree and brought them home with us on our last visit to New Orleans.  The  Satsuma name was new to me, they are similar to tangarines and peel in the same way.  I discovered that groves of this fruit were started by the Jesuits in the 18th century in the Jesuit Plantation upriver from New Orleans, Louisiana.   The fruit was prepared for canning with the addition of lemon rind, sugar, and pectin.    The marmalade is delicious on Cabaret crackers with a topping of freshly made clotted cream!         

Summer Placemats in Ultracotton

SHENANDOAH FABRIC in Kona Cotton

NIGHT FAIRIES

SMOKEY S. IN THE BARN

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SILK SWORDFISH - 54" Satin Fabric

Painted Bunting, Male and Female - Silkscreen

Patty Pan Fabric, Silkscreen repeat design on Kona Cotton

PEACE BIRDS

DRAGON VALENTINE

SELF PORTRAIT

Self-Portrait of the Artist. done in oils on 24"x 28" stretched, primed canvas.  Background is the Finger Lakes,  Keuka State Park,  Esperanza Road, Jerusalem, NY. 

MUSIC DEPT - RUTGERS,

TWELFTH NIGHT IN SATIN FABRIC

MICHAEL GRAVES EXHIBIT - THE PAST AS PROLOGUE

The Michael Graves Exhibition at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ celebrates 50 years of Mr. Graves' architectural work and design. The show is complete and takes us through his beginning years as a young architectural student who had won the prestigious Prix de Roma award.  With this fellowship he travelled through Greece, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain recording the great classical monuments in his sketchbook.  Of particular note, are the large, ink &

wash cathedral drawings on the first floor.  The classical influence is evident in the rooms containing his building designs from Disney to the redesign of the Newark Museum and its addition.  Even though I became obsessed with Michael Graves' classical,  geometric  design interior of the dining area in the Newark Museum, I love his functional pieces.  The second floor of the exhibit details his home design and furniture, dinnerware and working drawings.    His beautiful, Alessi silver tea service is featured, along with his complete desk set (like a small city within itself),  and the charming  teapot with whistling bird.   The exhibit will be on view until April 2015, it is inspirational and extensive.  The working drawings are important to see, all hand-generated, not computer!

Ancestors' Day

DANDELIONS ON GOLD - Silkscreen Fabric

BLUE FAIRY - Repeat Pattern in Kona Cotton