As we approach Valentine’s Day it’s time to acknowledge (with much appreciation and gratitude) the Silent Partner in my art. A sweet and resourceful (not to mention long-suffering and patient) husband is responsible for fitting out the studio that occupies the back half of the lower level of our house and threatens, at any moment, to take over the entire downstairs.
My husband has built masses of shelving and storage space and work benches. He’s the muscle that unloaded, lugged in and assembled my 250-pound press. During our daily walks, he’s the fellow who lets me stuff his jacket pockets with junk I find on the road to take home just to see “how it prints”. He helps with setting up the occasional art show I host for family and friends (always with his homemade biscotti) and designs and constructs the display boxes, racks and easels that show off my prints so handsomely.
And that brings me to the reason for today’s short post – to thank all of you who follow my printmaking adventures. Especially during this time of social isolation it’s wonderful to have such a supportive connection. In appreciation, I’m giving away three of my handmade concertinas, pictured below. They make great little sketchbooks, travel diaries, photo booklets or even gratitude journals for jotting down all the good things in daily life.
For a chance to win one of these blank, accordion folded books, send an email to the address in the Contact section at the top of this blog, and put Contest in the subject line. On February 25, 2021 I’ll randomly draw three emails and then be in contact with the winners.
(Note: Contest now closed. Congratulations to Eileen, Suzan and Nancy.)
Again, thanks so much! And Happy Valentine’s!
