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 27-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), but, we are considering a self-contained RV, and can pull LuLuBelle behind us for our transportation to and from the festival sites!
LIST OF SHOWS FOR 2020:
- (CONFIRMED) 12th Annual Downtown Venice Labor Day Weekend Craft Festival, Venice, FL Sept. 5-6, 2020
- (WAIT LIST) Arts in the Heart of Augusta, Augusta, GA. Sept. 18-20, 2020
(CONFIRMED) Autumn in the Park, Vero Beach, FL. Oct. 3-4, 2020
(APPLIED) Winter Spgs Festival of the Arts, Winter Spgs, FL. Oct. 17-18, 2020
(APPLIED) Halifax Art Festival, Daytona Beach, FL. Nov. 6-8, 2020
(APPLIED) Cocoa Beach Art Festival, Cocoa Beach, FL Nov. 28-29, 2020
(CONFIRMED) St. Pete Corey Avenue, St. Pete, FL Dec. 5-6, 2020
LIST OF SHOWS FOR 2021:
(APPLIED) 36th Cape Coral Arts & Music Festival, Cape Coral, FL. Jan. 9-10, 2021
(APPLIED) 36th Annual Key West Craft Show, Key West, FL. Jan.30-31, 2021
- (CONFIRMED) 20th Annual Hobe Sound Art Festival, Hobe Sound, FL. Feb. 6-7, 2021
- (CONFIRMED) 27th Annual Siesta Key Craft Festival, Sarasota, FL
- Feb. 27-28, 2021
- (CONFIRMED) Tarpon Springs Fine Art Festival On The Bayou, Tarpon Springs, FL. March 13-14, 2021
- (CONFIRMED) 55th Annual DeLand Outdoor Art Festival, DeLand, FL. March 27-28, 2021
- (CONFIRMED) 21st LeMoyne Chain of Parks Art Festival, Tallahassee, FL. April 17-18, 2021
- (APPLIED) Isle of Eight Flags Art Festival, Fernandina Beach, FL. May 1-2, 2021
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