ABOUT THE ARTIST
I pursue my art as a full-time exhibiting artist doing both fine craft and fine art shows, showing original paper mosaics. So, it doesn't give me a lot of time for much else. I do try to slow down from time to time and am ever-grateful for my little slice of heaven in my Florida bungalow by the sea.
Here is where I recharge, and having moving water (Atlantic Ocean) on one side and the Halifax River (Intracoastal Waterway) grounds me. Some people need the mountains, and some the sea. I'm convinced that sea water courses through my veins.
I am also a contributing columnist and features writer at Sunshine Artist magazine, and have had photos published in Coastal Living and The Sun magazines. This follows from my 22-year career with a newspaper in Ocala, Florida.
Always looking for creative opportunities, I love public art, and have done some tile mosaic projects in Ocala and Cedar Key. I recently had the occasion to be the recipient of some old floor tile from the 1947 American Legion and Greyhound Bus Station in downtown Daytona Beach, FL. I have donated a large sunflower mosaic with some of the floor tiles for the organic cafe that will be part of the new renovation.
Feel free to click on over to www.free-range-van.weebly.com to see both the horse I created for Horse Fever in Ocala, 2001, and the Art Van, LuluBelle - which is a continuing labor of love! Although LuLuBelle is not pressed into service doing art festivals as much anymore (Toy Hauler and Big Gold Suburban is the mode of travel now), I intend to finish her, and donate her to the Art Car Museum in Texas, or sell her to a surf shop...she would LOVE that....
LIST OF SHOWS FOR 2019:
(CONFIRMED) Piedmont Park Arts Festival 2019, Atlanta, Ga Aug. 17-18, 2019
(CONFIRMED) Jekyll Island Shrimp & Grits, Jekyll Island, GA Sept. 19-22, 2019
(WAIT LIST) Atalaya Fine Arts & Crafts, Murrells Inlet, SC Sept. 27-29, 2019
(CONFIRMED) Downtown Sarasota Crafts Festival,Sarasota, FL Oct. 5-6, 2019
(APPLIED) Winter Park Autumn Arts, Winter Park FL Oct. 12-13, 2019
(APPLIED) Winter Springs ARToberFEST!, Winter Spgs., FL, Oct.. 19-20, 2019
(CONFIRMED) Halifax Art Festival, Daytona Beach, FL Nov. 2-3, 2019
(WAIT LIST) Downtown Festival and Art Show, Gainesville, FL Nov. 16-17, 2019
(CONFIRMED) Cocoa Beach Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2019
(CONFIRMED) Mistletoe Market, St. Simons Island, GA Dec. 7-8, 2019
IST OF SHOWS FOR 2020:
(APPLIED) Cape Coral Arts & Music Festival, Cape Coral, FL. Jan. 11-12, 2020
(CONFIRMED) 19th Annual Hobe Sound Festival of the Arts, Hobe Sound, FL.
Feb. 1-2, 2020
(APPLIED) 37th Annual Sanibel Island Arts & Crafts Fair, Sanibel Island, FL.
Feb. 15-16, 2020
(APPLIED) Old Florida Celebration of the Arts, Cedar Key FL., Apr 4-5, 2020
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