It’s been a busy year for my art, before and even during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Before the pandemic hit, I was invited to participate in a five-person fiber art show called Thread Count at Hartford Fine Art and Framing. The curator at that gallery approached me and four other fiber artists, Clara Nartey, Judy Ross, Cathy Smith, and Kate Themel. All of us are members of Connecticut Women Artists. It’s so flattering to be sought out and invited!
Here’s our postcard:
And here’s a look at a few of my pieces that were part of that show, complete with thermostat and light switch:
To my surprise and delight, buyers bought SEVEN of my pieces! Thank you, buyers! You made my day, week, and month! I’ve written thank-you notes to all of you, but I believe that only two of you have received my notes because Hartford Fine Art and Framing had been waiting until the end of the show to give customers their purchases and hand over my thank-you notes. I wasn’t able to send the notes directly to the buyers because the gallery was keeping their names and addresses confidential.
I’m going to show you the pieces that were bought, below. And please continue on past these seven, because a little later, I sold three more pieces, bringing the total of my art sales to ten so far this year.
This is Conflagration II, a felted landscape with beading and embroidery, purchased by a buyer from Fairfield County.
One Hartford area couple bought three pieces: Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail II, Violet Twilight, and Fall Walking into Winter. I’ll display all three sequentially below:
This is Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail II, a felted, embroidered landscape with a little photo transfer.
This is Violet Twilight, a felted landscape with hand embroidery and a little thread painting
This is Fall Walking Into Winter, a felted landscape with a little embroidery and applique.
This is Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail. I still don’t know who bought this one.
This is Pemetic Trail, a felted and embroidered landscape. Don’t know who bought this one.
This is Last Day of Summer, First Encounter Beach. Don’t know who bought this one.
I believe that the gallery is waiting for things to open up a little before they give out peoples’ purchases, and my thank-you notes, although a few of the pieces have already been picked up and carried off.
The next thing that happened was that two buyers from England bought three of my pieces! Before you go thinking I’m an international art tycoon, I can tell you that all of the purchasers were and are friends. Thank you, friends! You made my day, week, and month!
Anna in London bought two pieces: Bright Sky, Fading Day and Colors of Dusk. Here they are:
Here’s Bright Sky, Fading Day, a felted landscape.
Here’s Colors of Dusk, a felted landscape with a little thread-painting and hand embroidery.
Malcolm and Pamela of Bury, Lancashire bought Spring Rain, a quilted, beaded fabric collage.
In the middle of all this, I found I won a prize awarded by the Cape Cod Art Center for their show, Through Your Eyes, which combined both landscapes and abstract images. I won a cash prize for Best Landscape in Show, for my felted landscape, Connecticut’s Charter Oak, after Frederic Church:
After all that excitement, I took a break to work on making masks for the pandemic. I don’t know how many I made because they just flew out the door. Some of my friends made dozens, even hundreds. I don’t think I made that many.
What else? I’m still making things, always creating. One of them is a large 30 x 40 piece called Not a River, which has taken me over a year to finish. Still working on that and a couple of other things. I’m looking forward to a number of upcoming exhibits, which I hope will actually take place.
Meanwhile, we wait and see.