The Paper Lady

3x5” each, a simple demonstration

wasp paper topography, 24x36” 2019

Pittsburgh’s watershed 36x36” 2019

Water walks workshop with CMU. Participants explored their relationship with water, learned about Pittsburgh watersheds whilst creating handmade papers at Construction Junction 2019.

Water Walks

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Illustrated Pennsylvania Map, 4x8’ 2019

Illustrated and embellished with wood, Pennsylvania Map, 4x8’ 2019

some kinetic features,  toys and "mexican lotteria" name Tags  

handmade paper skins this old camera – look closely there is a 35 mm slide in side with art history image of Paul Klee’s ship sculpture 2018

on a repurposed cut book. Ok yes it’s “punny”

She’s got wings wheels and a piano hammer for a head. Skinned with flax papers.

one small wrench on a cut-up book 2019

interactive, fun, still sharp 2018

tools and toys and a repurposed book

after not using the 11” fashion doll heads for years (I had a creepy basket full of heads) finally, found a solution that made me smile! 2019

Folded 2019

Extended 2019

2019

a life-sized articulated skeleton puppet with rusty metal, skinned with handmade paper tainted by iron oxide, a byproduct of fracking. 2016

Head Detail

From the exhibit Sign of the Times 2019

a series or grouping of strong women

my first bobble head

Wasp nest sewing patterns and poke weed 2016

2017

a kinetic flying horse skinned with wasp next papers

another wasp nest character with very sharp found blade (thanks Alphi) and 35mm slide of a Buckminster Fuller, sculpture inside with a tiny light.

kinetic elements crop up and say Play with me!

hand made paper cast over the texture of a real old quilt  then driven over with my truck, ( at the time a 1961 international scout, i loved that car) once dry the quilt is removed then  machine and hand stitched,  painted with watercolor  and encaustics  then stretched over a frame and dipped in bees wax . this is how the majority of these works were created 

 all that and the addtion of vintage photos

 Purchased by Agnes Scott University for the City Of Decatur Ga. 

encaustic on Hand made papers with natural pigments, 36x48” 2019

featured in Crafting Conversations, IAPMA and Uppagus 2019

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encaustic on Hand made papers with rust belt F.O. 30x40” 2019

encaustic on Hand made papers with rust belt F.O. 30x40” 2019

Exhibit handmade paper quilts held over for 4 months! September 2019-January 2020 , Pictured here above the adult fiction: Natural history 1&2 and Security Blanket 1&2

IAPMA International Association of Hand Papermaking Artist

2019 a very large “Chia guy” you might say! His début was at Pittsburgh Art All Nite

and continues to in the sunny window (and to freak out the neighbors)

are moist healthy places for growing things

collection of gathered seeds kept on growing for months till I went out of town and it all dried out

can you say distraction? I would rather be touching soil than just about anything! Growing food is the bonus, that is why I have a tomato tattoo.

during a recent Adventure to the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland OH I learned how to strip KOZO fibers from a stick- I brought back some sticks to play with in addition to the kozo (a type of Mulberry, or Daphne) papers and fibers and experimented with making charcoal! Very successful… I am excited about making charcoal from the woody stalks of the plants I made paper of!

come not such a long way from the original. Plantable seed cards (since 1985) with more colorful non-toxic water-based inks thinned with fish emulsion.

a little compost in the paper pulp to give the seeds a boost!

same thing different delivery system!

Growing plants for papermaking, like okra “yuck - it’s not a food it’s a slimy art supply”

The Catahoula memorial asperagrass patch and fiber garden, along with Okra, flax, sunchoke, pumpkin vines and other random food and fibers!

you can see the Yarden on the Swissvale Edible Garden Tour – one of the only food garden tours in the US!

 "THe BIG ZIp"  cast paper from bananna trees, vintage extra long zipper allows you to peel out of this dress ( yes my knees hurt) 

 a tost to the light with in us!

 cast paper torsos accompany each other through all sorts of situations, I hope to draw attention to the value of good friends and spouses in times of need 

a dress made from bubble wrap (City Paper)

handmade paper, spray paint, planet inspired hat

handmade paper, spray paint, planet inspired dress

handmade paper, spray paint, planet inspired dress

on the mannequin

Paper fashions utilizing Isabelle De Borgrave’s techniques using only papers that I printed and painted in advance. I created Saint Catherine in two hours with a live audience at the Frick!

 handmade paper and ephemera over a cane frame. Not quite as collapsible as the Japanese ones but crafted in the same fashion.  with or with out bees wax they make a light that is romantic and aromatic. 

 Some times I am able to collect real wasp nests and unwrap them ( a task best dome in winter)and recreate a hollow form using their papers.

 Wasps are the best papermakers , their paper an archive of their habait 

 balances on a fine floor lamp by Tery Blood Worth

 WE will be showing some of these beauties at Kentuck Oct 17,18,19  2014 

I have been doing bird etchings for several years now  most often found on handmade paper shades or wall works. 

 I do a sort of Plexiglas etching with a combination of oil base and water base inks.  They are all mono prints being recolored with each print  using a 100 + year old  press. 

   bird etchings on handmade recycled papers   bees wax coated  hanging  bird cage lamp.  All Bird cage lamps  have moving bird shadows and special long silky fringe be cause I said so.  

 remember that They Might Be Giants song...... 

I am singing that song whilst i type so although imagery may vary the nite lights are usually birds.