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(Feeling) Grief

When I began creating my Feelings series, I always knew I would need to make Grief. Not necessarily because I would be feeling grief but rather, because it’s an emotion we all experience at some point. It’s a feeling of raw pain and anguish in the early days, weeks, and months of a loss, eventually edging back into the corners of the heart, yet occasionally rising in waves of sadness at unexpected moments even years later.

Grief drowns us. It swallows us down and we let it. We fight our way to the surface to bargain with our Divinity before sinking again into despair, hiding ourselves away, hoping if we hide long enough, it won’t be true. Eventually, we float, accepting the truth but still never knowing when another wave will come along and swamp us with our loss.

When I opened my design journal to the next doodle for my series, I knew it was time. This is Grief, as I imagine it would look if feelings had color and shape and texture.

If you are grieving, this piece is for you. You are seen and you are loved and the one you’ve lost is always with you.

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Grief (link to poem)

Grief ~ February 2020 ~ 35″ x 24-1/2″ ~ $2500

Detail view:
Grief ~ February 2020 ~ 35″ x 24-1/2″ ~ $2500

Next up: I’m taking a short hiatus from creating any new work — big changes underway in our household (all good!!). Once things have settled back down, I’ll be back in late April or early May to continue work on my Feelings series.

Info about my Feelings series: I interpret my random abstract doodles as emotions. The guiding point is the outer boundary of the doodle. The boundary evokes the feeling. From there, I contemplate how to bring that particular feeling alive in fiber.

My art and my work go hand in hand. I’m a Leadership Development Trainer & Coach, helping stressed, frantic, frazzled professionals shift from crisis mode to working in harmony so they can learn how to become the leaders they were born to be. If you’re interested in leadership development training and coaching, please join me over at Harmony Coaching.

The majority of my work is for sale. Please visit my Gallery for available work.

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Studio Update: January 2020

I’m going to start the year with a post summarizing the textured fiber paintings I made in 2019. But before I get to that, I’m currently working on my first piece for 2020 – (Feeling) Grief. I knew I’d need to create Grief at some point; I guess that time is now. Here are a few progress photos:

(Feeling) Grief – the template for the canvas

The final design, photographed in black and white to show contrast.

Come back next month to see the completed work!

In 2019, I made 6 textured fiber paintings, which was my goal. Feelings ran the spectrum from Woe to Dynamism. (If you’re interested, I have the same goal this year. Considering the amount of stitching I do on these pieces, 6 seems reasonable as I don’t make art full time.) I’ve included photos below, with links to each piece’s article if you’d like a bit more information about a piece. All of this work is for sale. If you’re interested, please visit my Gallery page or contact me through this website.

Woeful - Full(c) — Woeful ~ March 2019 ~ 33-1/2″”x22″ ~ $2500

Passionate ~ May 2019 ~ 37 x 21-1/2″” ~ $2500

Crushed ~ July 2019 ~ 35″ x 22-1/2″ ~ $2500

Hopeful ~ September 2019 ~ 36″ x 23″ ~ $2500

Perplexed ~ October 2019 ~ 36″ x 23″ ~ $2500

Dynamic ~ December 2019 ~ 36″ x 22″ ~ $2500

Next up: I’ll continue work on Grief. Full reveal expected in February.

My art and my work go hand in hand. I’m a Leadership Development Trainer & Coach, working with stressed, frantic, frazzled professionals who struggle to lead, experience self-sabotage, have difficulty communicating, and can’t break through persistent red tape. What they want is to innovate, achieve consistent results, and come together as a team, so their employers call on me for leadership development training and coaching. I’m an expert at shedding the stress, designing solutions, and building cohesive, consistent high-achieving teams. My clients go from crisis mode to working in harmony, saving time, money, and energy, finally getting their shit together. If you’re interested in leadership development training and coaching, please join me over at Harmony Coaching.

The majority of my work is for sale. Please visit my Gallery for available work.

Thanks for visiting my studio!

(Feeling) Dynamic

2019 has been an exciting year, one filled with change and personal growth and adventures, so it seems fitting my final piece for the year is (Feeling) Dynamic.

To feel dynamic means to feel highly energized, productive, influential, and powerful. It means you put yourself out there to play big, using your charisma to motivate and inspire others. Let’s make 2020 a dynamic year!

How dynamic are you?

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Dynamic (link to poem)

Detail View:
Dynamic ~ December 2019 ~ 36″ x 22″ ~ $2500

Next up: I will continue to work on my Feelings series into 2020. There are so many feelings to be created out of fiber!

Side note: I fulfilled my goal of six textured fiber paintings for the year. Yay me!

My art and my work go hand in hand. I’m a Leadership Development Trainer & Coach, helping stressed out, frantic, frazzled professionals and the companies who employ them learn how to slow down and speak up, acquiring the skills to lead instead of follow, so everyone can feel like they’ve got their shit together. I lead them from crisis mode to working in harmony so they can become the leaders they know it’s possible to be. If you’re interested in leadership development training and coaching, please join me over at Harmony Coaching.

The majority of my work is for sale. Please visit my Gallery for available work.

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(Feeling) Perplexed

Full reveal of my 5th piece for the year! (Feeling) Perplexed is complete.

When we feel perplexed, it can feel like the world is a puzzle, one where we’re presented with questions and moral quandaries that promote reflection. Sometimes, like a Zen koan, we may never truly find the answer we seek to end our perplexion, yet we continue to move forward.

What has left you feeling perplexed lately?

Constructive criticism and comments are always welcome. Please share your thoughts!

Perplexed (link to poem)

Detail View:
Perplexed ~ October 2019 ~ 36″ x 23″ ~ $2500

Next up: Work continues on my Feelings series. I am currently working on my last piece for the year, back in the positive feeling spectrum.

My art and my work go hand in hand. I’m a Performance Mindset Coach, helping stressed out, frantic, frazzled professionals slow down and reconnect to their intuition so they can get their shit together. I’ve walked the road my clients are on. My method to slow down was through development of a creative practice, which helped me regain my voice and led me to want to serve others in the same way. If you’re interested in developing (or expanding on) a creative practice as a means to reconnect to your intuition, lose your stress, and improve your professional performance, please join me over at Harmony Coaching.

The majority of my work is for sale. Please visit my Gallery for available work.

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Studio Update: October 2019

In my last studio update (August 2019), I mentioned it typically takes me at least two months to complete a textured fiber painting. I finished my most recent painting, (Feeling) Hopeful, in late September, so the two month thing is on track.

The reason it takes me about two months per piece is because my goal has been to spend at least 3 hours in my studio each week. This goal goes back to when I was working corporate and was not self-employed.

In the 6 months I’ve been working for myself, I’ve learned a few things. While building a business takes work, it also allows for way more flexibility in schedule. This means I can increase my studio time if I choose.

I did choose and am now shooting for 6 hours in the studio every week. I schedule one hour of studio time per day on my agenda, after I’ve completed my coach work. I usually leave Friday open, no studio time, which gives me float and an extra day if I’ve fallen behind with my commitment to my art earlier in the week.

I’ve only been doing this for a couple weeks, but I’m already seeing the creative practice speed up.

I don’t know what this will ultimately mean for a production schedule, other than it’s certain I’ll finish a piece in less than 2 months. The ultimate aim is to produce one new textured fiber painting per month.

My current work in progress, (Feeling) Perplexed, is almost complete. In fact, since October has five weeks, it will be finished by Halloween/Samhain. I started it the last week in September, so it looks like I’ll hit that one month goal! Full reveal will happen in November, combined with that month’s studio update.

For now, I hope you enjoy Perplexed’s progress photos.

What goal do you have that could be adjusted to create a bigger impact for you?