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starting point for the studio. The Bob Ichter abstract painting
was my inspiration, as it reminded me of an enlarged photo detail
of a butterfly wing. The beautiful live-edged wood slab desk
with hand-wrought iron base was made by my firend John Hone
at Greenwich Property Management. The gorgeous aqua glass lamp
is by Arteriors Home. |
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| Detail
of my paints table with 2 of my paintings. And yes those are
real butterflies in them! |
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| Shot
of the other side of the art studio, with another one of my
butterfly paintings on the easel (with real butterflies), and
my wall installation piece of 3-D (not-real) cobalt blue butterflies
made of hardened fabrics of varying textures, sizes and shapes. |
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| A
closer shot of the easel and painting, plus the artist's stool,
which is a log painted with silver metallic paint. |
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A close-up of my large butterfly painting. Can you believe the
colors of their wings? And the size of the yellow one? |
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| A
partial view of the butterfly installation on the side wall. |
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| This
shot shows the dimensionality of the cobalt blue butterfly sculptures. |
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| Another
view showing the 3-D nature of the blue butterflies. |
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| This
detail shows the textures of some of the fabrics used in the
creation of the butterfly installation entitled "Flight
to the LIght" |
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| This
shows the little hall/entryway into the artist's studio. The
photo doesn't do justice to the gorgeous wood grain texture
of the orange Venetian plaster work done by Heidi Holzer. The
plaster hand holds my business cards. The frame for the room
credits sign was made by painting a chunk of tree bark after
I had pressed it and glued a fabric support to the back of it
to hold it together. The ceiling "mosaic" is made
of real butterfly wings. (Thank you to my summer interns Chanel
and Annabelle who helped to glue them all to the ceiling!) |
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| This
detail shows the textures of some of the fabrics used in the
creation of the butterfly installation entitled "Flight
to the LIght" |
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| And
a close-up detail of the mosaic of real butterfly wings. (I
had never seen a red butterfly before getting these butterfly
specimens from E-Bay!) |
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| Here
is a close-up of the plaster hand/business card holder, plus
the silver tree bark frame. The silver tree bark was later purchased
by a client to use as a frame for one of my smaller butterfly
paintings. |
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| This
shot shows the texture of the silver log stool a bit better.
The seat is even canted to make it easier to sit on while leaning
forward to paint. |
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| Perhaps
my favorite invention for the space was this light sculpture
I created (with the help of John Hone) using a simple broken
tree branch and a hidden LED light, which, a it faced the white
plaster wall, caused the wall to slowly change colors. (See
the other two shots below for some of the other colors). This
tree branch and the butterfly wing ceilings provided some fun
"Aha!" moments from the visitors. |
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