I’m so excited to collaborate with the candle makers at Kansas Earth and Sky Candle Company to offer this Moon Before Yule candle. Visit them at www.kansasearthandskycandle.com to order. It is part of Artist by Candelight, Saturday, October 26, at 6 pm where I’ll have a collection of new baby moons and talk about the […]
Trudy Furney Tribute Award
Thank you ROAR Art Show for awarding A Field of Wild Sunflowers the Trudy Furney Tribute Award. Sunflowers grow wild on the Kansas plains and are one of the last flowers to bloom in late summer. Their vibrant color ushers the land into the early half of autumn. They are the state flower of Kansas […]
Read the latest Prairie Journal
If you are a kindred prairie spirit who loves to see what’s happening on the plains seasonally, please sign up for The Prairie Journal on this website. I’d love to send it to you. This edition has solar dyeing, a peek into my art sanctum, Willa Cather’s country, and a cat haunting. Plus, there are […]
Wise Woman’s Moon
The Wise Woman’s Moon (36×36) symbolizes the path from birth to our wise years. Like a woman’s life, the moon is a culmination of a thousand little details made from the indention of milo, wheat, and corn. Inside, hand-laid rust symbolizes the fleetingness of time. The deepening blue at the edge emotes encroaching twilight as […]
The New Territory Magazine
I’m so grateful this baby blue moon is off to a new collector who supported the silent auction of The New Territory Magazine. It is a beautiful publication that celebrates the American plains. […]
Life in a small town
Living in a small, rural town and going to your local watering hole for lunch is one of life’s greatest pleasures. You can’t tell me otherwise. Today’s lunch special is steak fingers, mashed potatoes and homemade white gravy. Come to Kansas and I promise you’ll eat well. […]
Goldenrod Blessings
Lovely goldenrod is a transition wildflower blooming late summer on the prairie but whose color I still enjoy in the pasture. I made a few solar-dyed silk scarves on the south porch with pasture goldenrod. On St. Brigid’s Day, I’ll place them outside for the saint to bless with good health and then affix the […]
Smoke, Plants and Art
I love to gather fresh prairie sage from the late summer prairie. It is small-leafed and silver and full of a season of sunrises, sunsets, and storms. It shares the land with me and also its stories. I burn the sage directly onto paintings so it might communicate with the art. […]
