I use this page to share the inspiration that these people provide me............
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Under Recon Struction
Beautifully altered and reconstructed garments.
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Cat Bishop
Cat Bishop's found object assemblages will bring a smile to your face and a refreshing whimsy to any room in your house.
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Treehouse 28
Alix designs incredibly wearable garments- classic and edgy at the same time.
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Tina Rice
I love her freeform enamel pendants and earrings.
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Danny Mansmith
Danny is a Chicago textile artist that I discovered thru Etsy. I could spend hours just looking at the photos of his work space.
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Peggy Flynn
I met Peggy at the Rosen show in Philadelphia a few years ago and was immediately attracted to her exhuberance for life. Her intricate work is infused with her generous spirit.
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Penny McElroy
Story telling is an important aspect of Penny's collage work. When I want to feel inspired, I take a cyber tour of her gallery. Penny also teaches printmaking, book arts and graphic design at the University of Redlands.
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Katrin Wiese
Katrin uses her intelligence, wit and incredible artistic ability to comment on our current White House administration.
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Frida Kahlo
From 1926 until her death, the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo created striking, often shocking, images that reflected her turbulent life.
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Kathy Jones
Kathy's work is influenced by the Bay Area Figurative painters, and by the work of Edward Hopper and Fairfield Porter. She lives and paints in Laguna Beach. Beautiful and vibrant.
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Robert Rauschenberg
Silkscreener, printmaker, choreographer, set designer extraordinaire.
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Terry Davitt-Powell
Terry's paintings remind me that it is possible for nature and technology to co-exist. I especially like her paintings of crows.
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Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin
I recently met Vibiana and am in awe of her wildly exhuberant paintings and their soulful narrative. She is a warm and beautiful person.
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Penny Harrell
Penny's intricate beadwork and thoughtful use of color merge into wearable works of art.
A sad note- Penny died on July 31, 2004. I will miss her intelligence, generous spirit and deliciously twisted wit.
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Sister Corita
Corita Kent, also known as Sister Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s.
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J.D. Myers
Jane's wonderful store is her art. She travels extensively to find clever, beautiful, functional (and sometimes slightly naughty) Homewares and Bodywears. Redlands is lucky to have her.
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Susan Mrosek
My friend Jane told me about this artist. Her ability to fuse her art with her words is a stunning departure from the norm. Fascinating cards, posters, and fine art.
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Sheri Burhoe
Sheri is an expressionist painter living in New Brunswick, Canada. Her expressionist paintings vibrate with rich emotion and vibrant color. We both have stores on Etsy and that's where we met.
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Karen Mahmoudi
Handcrafted sterling silver jewelry featuring
earthstones,textured metal, mokume gane,
pottery shards, polymer clay, and anything
else that she can find to set in a bezel.
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Heather Stevning, Blue Mud Studio
Heather is a one of Redlands' cornerstones of healthy mind-body education. I have benefited from her yoga classes, her personalized audio tapes and her creativity classes. Just being in her presence is soothing.
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Andy Warhol
Over the course of his career, Andy Warhol transformed contemporary art. Employing mass-production techniques to create works, Warhol challenged preconceived notions about the nature of art and erased traditional distinctions between fine art and popular culture.
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Joseph Cornell
One of the pioneers and most celebrated exponents of assemblage. I recently saw one of his pieces at an exhibit at the Norton Simon Museum. Awe-inspiring.
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Kay West
Kay has been designing and fabricating one-of-a-kind sterling and copper, and then fibre-coiled and beaded, jewelry since the early 1990s.
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