Parts of Art

It’s one of my favorite lines at a show, but I’m not just making it up. It’s true.  “I made this for you before we met!” When I set up at a show it’s with my entire repertoire of handmade wearable art. Most of the pieces I have crafted in my country studio in the middle of winter with the wood stove cranking and no one around but the cats. At times when I’m working away in my studio, I look at a finished piece and think to myself,  “Who would wear that? What was I thinking? Am I crazy?” And on and on. Then lo and behold, I go to a show, and something wonderful happens. I meet the one I made it for.  It happened several times at my last show, which was Penrod in Indianapolis.  This is a necklace I made as a show piece, which means it was photographed and used to jury into art shows.  It is a unique piece, entitled “Yoke” because of the style of the necklace.        I put it in my showcase at Penrod and eventually she came. She and Yoke clearly made an immediate connection, mad

Thirty years ago, when I first started my Parts of Art jewelry line, I had a little shop about the size of a walk in closet, where I sold hand painted clothing.   I would order tees and sweatshirts, fleece jackets and denim dusters, and paint custom designs on them.  This denim duster is the one and only piece of vintage denim that I have kept all these years.  This month I decided to paint it and make it my inaugural comeback into hand painted clothing. To place a custom order or make a purchase, visit my Etsy store here