I was so honored to be included in the Spring Issue of Uppercase Magazine!
I‘ve been a huge fan of this magazine since Issue 1!
“How does gardening inspire your art?” was the submission topic.
My collage, “Posadas” was featured on page 80 of issue 53, Spring 2022.
Below is my response in writing to “How gardening inspires my art”
Walk and Look
In 2008, my husband and I moved from New York City to Norwalk, Connecticut. Suddenly we owed trees, shrubs, perennials that needed grooming, transplanting and cultivating. I was immersed and loving it!
As a new mom, I strolled the neighborhood daily with my baby daughter and would make note of plants I admired. Afterwards, I would visit nurseries and scour the internet researching these same plants. Throughout the years, I have cultivated our little land space with vegetables, perennials, trees, shrubs and annuals. I’ve learned so much.
Gardening had grown inside of me.
In early 2021, in the midst of the pandemic (and winter in New England), I began making art again. On my daily walks with my dogs, I started pinching off evergreen sprigs, and picking funky grasses, blooms, and twigs and prickly pinecones along the way. I pressed each one and began to incorporate them into my collages.
They seem to add a magical innocence, and quirkiness, to the pieces – an energy that can only come from nature. And each season offers me a wide variety of art supplies. All I need to do is walk… and look around me.
