New Web Site

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WalkingWool partners with Primo Restaurant Rockland

Thank you thank you thank you Primo Restaurant in Rockland ME for inviting WalkingWoolStudio+Gallery to install works from our collection. We are THRILLED to hang a variety of Gallery artists in the first floor dining rooms of the James Beard Foundation award-winning restaurant (celebrating it's 17th season, by the way, no small feat in the restaurant biz). We LOVE how the paintings, photograph, and works on paper compliment each other and the spaces of the historic building at 2 Main Street. We just can't gush enough, apparently!

Blas Castagna and Esquivel, small and large, respectively, in The Fireplace Room.

Esquivel over Table 21 in The Fireplace Room.

Carol Struve abstract in The Front Room.

Nikki Galapon in The Front Room.

F.J. Domingo in The Primo Room.

Jack Delaney in The Primo Room.

Jack again in The Primo Room.

Large charcoal drawing and small b/w photograph in The Front Room.

Happy Mother's Day to my sweet friends . . . something for you from one of Rockland's finest minds.

The courage that my mother had

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The courage that my mother had

Went with her, and is with her still:

Rock from New England quarried;

Now granite in a granite hill.

The golden brooch my mother wore

She left behind for me to wear;

I have no thing I treasure more:

Yet, it is something I could spare.

Oh, if instead she'd left to me

The thing she took into the grave!-

That courage like a rock, which she

Has no more need of, and I have.

"The courage that my mother had" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems. © Harper Collins, 1981. (Thank you Garrison Keillor -- Reprinted with permission by The Writer's Almanac.)

Baby Edna
(with dog of course . . . you know me!)

Such a life!

DEDICATING THEIR LIVES 

TO SLED DOGS

Kulning - ancient swedish herding call

WalkingWool featured yarn on February 28th podcast . . . !!!

So so excited! Ewe University featured my handspun, hand dyed Karakul Yarn on her recent podcast. Thank you so much, Kristine Kelly, a super host!

You can zoom to the 23:19 minute spot where my segment begins. She was so enthusiastic. I'm grateful.

Dogs Vs. Stairs

Well, just had to share this though no sheep were involved in the production of the video.

Renate Hiller - "On Handwork"

These two sweeties just picked for group show in Damariscotta . . . ovines getting some fresh air!

River Arts Opening Reception for 

“Faces & Figures” Exhibition 

River Arts in Damariscotta is inviting the public to the opening reception of its newest exhibition “Faces and Figures (animals included)” Friday, February 19th  from 5-7. The exhibition includes 120 works in a wide variety of media by 70 artists from all over Maine and runs through March 26.

The juror for the exhibition is John Lorence. Lorence attended Case Western, the Parsons School of Design, Cambridge School of Design and the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he earned his BFA and MFA. He has been the recipient of fellowships at YADDO, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the McDowell colony.  He has exhibited both his paintings and sculpture extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S as part of the Art-in Embassy program.  Lorence’s professional interests include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, art history, conservation and archeology as well as short films. He has taught at the Layton School of Art, Portland School of Art and the University of Wisconsin. He has had gallery representation in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee and recently exhibited at the Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth. Lorence now lives in Newcastle, but did have a house and studio on Great Cranberry Isle for over 20 years where he was one of the island group’s 14 artists.

I seem to be dying to dye . . .

and find myself taking new (to me) library books out, and researching new dyestuffs (again, to me) like lichens . . .

Here's a site I found that needs further digesting (once again, by me):

Orchil, the poor person's purple

by Chris Laning

If anyone has any experience with Orchil, I would love to hear from you.

And, here's one on Bloodroot . .

Empowering Basket Makers to Grow Their Own Bloodroot for Dye