new works at Pastiche2!

PASTICHE 2!

The new show is going up as of this post! Opening Saturday at 5pm!
I hope you can come to 14 S. Seventh Street in Fernandina Beach
to take a look at collaged works, old and new...

The solstice falls on the full moon again this year. The last time this happened was in 2002, and my husband, photographer Kenneth Cain, took this photograph...
We will walk the labyrinth at 7 o'clock on Tuesday, with votives, but we probably won't need much light, unless it's cloudy....

Creative Bookbinding comes to Amelia Island!

Sheila's Master Class

I was one of the privileged folks in this class of aspiring masters with a Master! Sheila Waters, doyenne of the calligraphic universe, has us live at her home in rural Pennsylvania where we sit and are SCRIBES for a week. On this "calligraphic vacation", we can live, breathe and eat calligraphy...well, we also did some breathing of fall air on long rural walks, and ate some delicious and nutritious food from her ample kitchen (yeah, trader joes!) and the awesome catered dinners....but this just allowed us to do more lettering for longer and longer! Many of us were working on roman variations: built-up versals, roman lower case, italic in endless variation...some focused on design, some guilding, and some of us just tried a little of everything we saw! Sheila has a huge basement studio with endless flat files of treasures, and she gave a daily demo in her areas of expertise: lettering, layout, color, and, in the photo here, her own tricks for laying gold...
Thanks to all who attended the October session for being so generous and for a relaxing but educational week (I have my "movie recommends" for the next year, I'll tell ya!) and those of you who also aspire to be mini-masters, look into this once-in-a-lifetime class!
PLEASE CLICK THE START ARROW TO WATCH THE SLIDE SHOW BELOW!

Ashton's portrait of "Za-Za" at drafting table...

I have posted my fourth book of W.S. Merwin poems to YouTube...whew! I hope I have a small but interested audience for them. To think their creation spans at least twenty years of work! I hope he lives a long and continually fruitful life...
click on the screen below to view in youtube...and please watch my other "shows" of books by one of my favorite poets!