Hello and thank you for stopping by.

 

I am a self-taught mixed media, collage and assemblage artist.  My passions include altering books, journals, canvases, tins and just about any media that I can incorporate into my artistic creations. 

 

My parents introduced us to the fine art masters at an early age and today I enjoy the freedom that the act of creating can bring. 

 

I have taught on-line workshops and will be teaching at Art Is You in 2008 in Cromwell, Connecticut.  I love attending art retreats as I find them very stimulating and empowering. 

 

Sometimes I feel that my personal mission is to rescue and incorporate into my art as many vintage cabinet cards, postcards and tintypes as I possibly can.  I have a love of all things vintage and incorporate those items into our home and in gifts.  I am definitely a nostalgia freak so I sometimes purchase items to use in my art only to find that I have to go through a detaching phase before I can use them and send them out into the world. 

 

My art has been published in the Artitude Zine, Somerset Gallery and Somerset Weddings.  I was named Spirit of ZNE in 2007 and will be published in the newest Quarry book authored by L.K. Ludwig which will be released in the fall of 2008.  I have been working with a group of wonderful artists and we will be putting our first book out soon so please check out the information on my blog.

 

Speaking of which, I blog at www.flatwoodsfolkart.typepad.com when I am not working my necessary job, attending events or creating art.

 

Please check back frequently as I feather this new nest and fill it with my artistic expressions.

 

Namaste,

 

Lesley