Hands and Crocus

Hands and Crocus, hooked rug, 9x12 inches

Hands and Crocus (detail)

Hands and Crocus (detail)

I designed and hooked this piece during a workshop with Jon Ciemiewicz at the Green Mountain rug hooking school. Although Jon's specialty is hooking animals, he didn't mind my choice of subject. I had recently heard Sarah MacLachlan's song "Ordinary Miracle", which is the theme song in  "Charlotte's Web", the week crocuses were blooming in my garden.  After a cold winter these flowers always seem miraculous when they pop through the snow.

 Inspired by Jon's work, I did hook a blue heron not long after.

Waiting for the Storm

Watercolour is somewhat unpredictable. It can be lots of fun to put down a lot of water on the paper, leaving some forms dry (as was the case here for the birds and branches), and dropping selected colours freely to let them wander and blend. It sometimes doesn't work out but I liked this sky a lot!

Town rug

A rug I designed and punch hooked for my partner. It represents some of the buildings which have had their addresses on our main street over the past hundred years.

L'aube sur la glace / Sunset on Ice

Les tonalitées de bleu, mauve, rose contrastantes avec les silhouettes 

foncées d'un paysage Laurentien.

A peaceful scene of dark tree silhouettes, setting sun and reflections on melting ice. 

Worked from a photo but I wish I was there!

Winter Shadows / Silhouettes sur la neige

Les couleurs de l'hiver et la qualité de la lumière sont des sujets se prêtant bien à l'aquarelle.

The soft qualities of winter colours on snow and the dramatic shadows of late afternoon are wonderful to create in flowing watercolour.

Snow Day / Pas d'école!

De la neige, une pelle, un tapis pour glisser. Les simples joies de l'hiver! 

Snow, a shovel and a crazy carpet, these are the simple joys of winter!

Windswept Farm

I was captivated by the "s" shape in the snow, the shadows, the stark quality of the landscape and, as always, the ever changing sky.