On View in August

A couple more exhibitions in the waning days of summer...

Two collage pieces will be on view at The Studio Door in San Diego, CA, as part of "Endangered," an exhibition of artwork about the beauty of endangered and threatened species or habitats, running from August 5-28.

 Beasts of the Northern Wild

 Beekeeper

One of my recent embroidered pieces will be on view in the "Real People 2016" exhibition, August 4 - October 1, 2016, at the Old Court House Arts Center in Woodstock, IL.

All My Love, Wilma

The Man from Beijing

Henning Mankell, a master of Swedish crime noir, has written a series of novels featuring Swedish detective inspector, Kurt Wallender.  One of my favorite Wallender books is The Man from Beijing, and one of my favorite sections of that book follows three young desparate Chinese brothers fleeing across old China, trying to save themselves and stay alive.  Mankell creates a beautiful but brutal world for them and a couple of his descriptions beg to be illustrated.  Here's one:

A Dense Cloud of Butterflies

"The insects were transparent and yellow, and their flapping wings

sounded like rustling paper. San paused in the middle

of the swarm, entranced. It felt like he'd entered a house

with walls made of wings."

(Chapter 10, The Man From Beijing by Henning Mankell, translation copyright  2010)

Red

Some Little Experiments with Composition...

Cubes 

 The eye

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Collaboration Round-Up

Some recently-completed collage collaborations between myself and my good friend Sabine Remy of Dusseldorf, Germany:

 Collaboration No. 50 "Dolls of Evil" (started by me & finished by Sabine)

 Collaboration No. 51 "The Spa) (started by Sabine, finished by me)

 Collaboration No. 52 "Under Fire" (started by me & finished by Sabine)

Collaboration No. 53 "Voodoo) (started by Sabine, finished by me)