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My art, both illustration and gallery work, has been influenced by many people. I am fortunate to have been born to gifted parents- my father and mother were both powerful creators. My great aunt Jean Webb was a WPA artist and art educator. Their homes were filled with color, art, and craft.Once I hit college, I was fortunate to have been taught all about color by Janet Taylor, who taught weaving at Kent State University. She is a brilliant colorist. I didn't discover illustration until I was in my last year at KSU, so I had to wait until a fateful day in 1983 to meet my next mentor. Barbara Carr came into my life like a typhoon- she was the leader of a sketching tour I took to Japan and Hong Kong- and a truly inspiring drawing teacher. Since then, my work has been influenced by artists as diverse as Leo & Diane Dillon, Eyvind Earle-lead background artist on Disney's "Sleeping Beauty", Stanley Spencer ("Cookham",) Edward Bawden and of course, the Bloomsbury artists. 
But things change and my illustration underwent a radical change. I still sometimes work in my older, 2D style but now my true love is my "paper-doll" style. I work in 3D, a flat 3D, and then photograph or directly scan the work. My work space seems more like Kaspar's magic box from "Amahl and the Night Visitors" than a typical art studio now but I have never been happier doing my work. New this Spring- come, learn and work in my studio during the 2 Workshops I have planned to explore Altered Books and Bricolage Portraits. 
Another important influence on my professional life has been my membership in, and involvement with, the Graphic Artists Guild. If you are a creator of visual art, I urge you to join us to work together to make our collective artistic lives better.I have also started to branch out into other fields. You can hear me and my "partners in crime," Bill Westwood and Paul Rapp, Esq., answer caller questions on copyright the 1st Wednesday of the odd-numbered months on WAMC's VoxPop. You can listen over the web and call in with your questions. And, as if that was not enough, you can purchase works of mine directly from Etsy. My shop is named "Loose Ends," I hope you will take a moment and stop by. And you can catch up with my blog:ArtWordsTea on blogspot. But enough of this chit-chat, you want to see some art; so click on this button:  | |
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