Blue Skies Workroom

Blue Skies Workroom is my current project.  Under the moniker Blue Skies Workroom, I merge fine art, functionality and a commitment to creating joy, to design, print and fabricate useful items for work, rest and play.  Blue Skies Workroom came about because I wanted to offer well-considered, hand-printed home textiles and garments to friends and neighbors to use and to give.  As Blue Skies Workroom, I design and produce garments, bags, home textiles and artist books from fabric yardage and paper I hand screenprint.

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Blue Skies Workroom is an exercise in radical optimism, the idea that in our chaotic everyday, acts of optimism are a bold force of will. As an artist and as a teacher, I strive to make joy and create beauty for the sheer pleasure of working within and bringing others into this space.  Each utilitarian, handmade object is a conversation between color, materials and design, and creates an opportunity for dialogue between user and article, to fill or to fondle. Affordable pleasures for everyday living.

I create most of my designs from hand cut paper and drawn marks; print primarily on linen and cotton for heft, drape and sheen; and use eco-friendly, non-toxic and water-based inks. I take inspiration from artists and designers such as Alexander Girard, Marimekko, Anni Albers, Sol LeWItt, Lubna Chowdhary, and Camille Walala, as well as contemporary knitters, quilt repeats, African and Dutch wax fabrics, Constructivists and katagami.

begun 2015 & actively ongoing