Found 2 chairs being discarded (in 2 different places!) and later a sweet round table. They seemed made for each other. I imagined them tucked up in a little bistro. Or someone’s sun porch. Someplace funky and hip. I used a sun/moon theme in my drawings. The table is split in sun/moon colors and all 3 pieces are embellished with beads.
A friend let me illustrate her new find; a bamboo screen rescue. Tree of life. Appropriate for something she saved from destruction
An old chipped teapot I covered with paper mache and made into an art piece. Funky and fun.
A client found an old teapot nestled in among the dinnerware and glasses in her mother’s attic. She gave it to me to make into an art piece for her daughter’s birthday. Her daughter loves teapots and art. Her daughter was smitten and I was as proud as any mother on graduation day!
This desk, left out in the weather, took a long time to repair, and while I was working on it, the legs made me think of wavy seaweed…so I dreamed of a mermaid. It’s on display at Common Ground and I hope to get a better photo once the weather cooperates with my work schedule. It has sea scenes all the way around, with a busty mermaid on the desk surface. I think it’s one of my best furniture pieces so far.
Gourd eggs are individual. I draw designs on each one, no two are the same.
I made myself a challenge this year of making art only with what I have on hand. This has helped m focus on my immediate surroundings, and what treasures I’ve uncovered! Another wonderful result of this challenge is that so many of my friends find themselves looking for interesting bits of my puzzles, too. Amazing what we can see when we start looking. They bring me wood they’ve discarded from household projects, broken or discarded toys, second-hand bits of this and that they run across and think, “Katie could put this on her boards!”
My assemblages are joint efforts to make things that have been discarded, or natural flora discovered in its own environment, and my imagination in the way I treat each bit of the puzzle. I find these pieces interesting to look at, and as relaxing, in their way, as music.
Display in Kathleen’s Gallery in Saluda, N.C.
Small white themed board, 14 inches tall, 4 inches wide
Outside, next to my front door. About 3.5 feet tall, 8 inches wide. This piece of art makes me feel happy and energetic every time I go outside, and tells the world I’m interested!
Spirit Dolls
Swaddled dolls are just right for keeping close. At your bedside or on your desk. A heart fragrant with Jasmine helps you relax.
More dolls at Market. Ready to be hung with your other art, they also invite you to add to their embellishments with your own bits and pieces.
Sticks and stones and shells. Scrap fabric and wood. Things that might have been tossed, or ignored. Now they have a new, glamerous life being admired!
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