Catch me on KUAT

KUAT Channel 6, our local PBS station, recently featured me and the gallery on Arizona Illustrated. They even talked me into doing a little painting in front of the camera. If you missed the initial showing you can still catch it on KUAT's web site! Watch the five-minute video here:
http://kuat.org/arizonaillustrated/index.cfm

The Tzedakah Box

As the Sylphs continued to grow in popularity, many people requested a tzedakah box using the figures.



Using Chagall's floating figures and village designs, the Sylphs naturally gravitated to this roof and once again proved their presence to be a blessing.

Sylphs on parade

The sylphs now seemed to have an energy all their own. People wanted them on their walls in their homes, and often, in places that recogonized healing, or physical movement be it dance, ballet, yoga or pilates. We modified the design into five sizes. These were simply named Seven Sylphs Wall Art and they continued to parade across the country.



Available sizes:
17x31 $300
23x41 $450
30x52 $900
35x62 $1,200
45x79 $1,500

Sylphs divided

The sylphs were magic as a group of seven, but we found if we divided the design into two or three figures, people still related to their joyful stance and message. As candles, the twosome was called "L’Cha Dodi" which translates to "Beloved", their name without candles.



The three figures represented either family or friends so we named them "Three Sylphs" whether a candle or a sculpture.

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Sylph Hooks

The Sylph jewelry hooks in mild steel have been a perennial favorite. The one shown is in my classic rainbow patina.

I only have two of these larger designs (7" tall x 28" long) left in stock. Both are patina-ed in soft shades of blue melting into purple and silver are are $100 each.

More sylphs

All of the elements have spirits and some of them are quite common in the arts: the gnomes and elves of the earth element and the mermaids of the water. Less known is the salamanders' rule of fire and the sylphs of the air.

Each element is given responsibilties. Sylphs direct the modeling of snowflakes and gathering the clouds. The Greeks believed it was the sylphs that spoke through the Oracles. Some believe them to be The Muses.

What are sylphs?

In mythology, all of the elements have spirits and each spirit/element is given responsibilities.

Sylphs, who represent air, are given the eastern corner of creation from whence new ideas dawn. They reign over souls with mirthful, changeable and eccentric temperaments and are the patrons of inspiration, creativity and genius.

Sylphs are the elemental nomads, invisible but ever-present powers in the creative activity of the universe.

Creating the Sylphs

This is how it all began.

I designed a piece of art that had seven figures and while looking for the proper name I remembered the term “sylphs”. When I researched the word, the meaning seemed absolutely appropriate for the energy emanating from these dancing divas.

Little did I know how much they would bring into my life.

To Everything There is a Season

How often Ecclesiastes "To Everything There is a Season” is quoted a way of explanation for any number of life changes. Today I invoke that oft-used concept to launch this blog.

Since Buck’s (my husband and partner) death I have tried to keep the business going. At first the effort was to keep it exactly as it was and then, as the years went by, modifying the types of items I made. In the last seven years I have created a lot of art! Recently, with the my metal paintings getting tremendous appreciation and support, I have come to realize the season for small metal items has passed. I have also seen the advantages of a blog. Putting those two things together, I am going to use the blog as a way to archive, take commissions and/or sell items and work towards a cleaner and clearer web site.

Shown: The Festival of Lights menorah, designed and created by myself and Buck

Inner Landscapes

My newest series “Inner Landscapes” is the result of my taking what I know, color, and combining it with the media I have become most comfortable with, metal. There is no paintbrush used, rather the image emerges as a relationship between my memory and the material being used. For this reason I call the metal paintings “Inner Landscapes”.

This series is dedicated to my favorite art professor and well-known watercolorist Bruce McGrew who advised “Don’t paint the light, paint what the light does.”

(shown: Landscape #8 "Primavera", 30"X21")

Stuff and Things

People often come to the gallery and say. “I love your stuff”. Although I know the customer is always right, I try to gently offer, “I prefer to think I’ve created nice things. The world is too full of stuff.”