Remember when I said I was going on a paper chase? I got as far as hefting my suitcase onto the scale at check-in. There, I was told that I couldn’t travel; my passport only had two and half months left on it.
It turns out that you need a full 3-6 months, before renewal, In order to travel to many international destinations, a pitfall I did not anticipate. Plans and dreams of the last year swirled down the drain outside SeaTac with the rain. OUCH!
Knowing that I'm extremely fortunate, (home, family, adequate resources) I wondered how to turn things around. With my sudden "gift" of free time, I realized I could recommit to my studio. I had time to dream, write and connect some of the dots in my practice that I’d been too busy to connect.
The gap time allowed me to come up with the "67 project;" a journal of pages equal to my age, exploring through abstract collage the delights and difficulties of aging that most of us experience, if we are lucky enough to live through them.
And while I was doing that, my friend, writer and artist Carol Spindel, whom I was to meet in Paris, went on her own hunt for papers. She came up with these amazing finds to use in the workshops below. Read on…
Monoprint Collage with Antique Papers
Session 1: June 16 - 17, Sacramento, CA
Session 2: July 15 - 16, Langley, WA
In this 2-day workshop, we’ll create unique and beautiful collages using antique papers as old as 500 years and as recent as the last century. I believe these pages hold a power and beauty that we rarely access in our present day world.
Printing and using them in our collage art becomes a journey in which we interweave the unknown history of the papers with our own personal histories, creating a kind of memoir.
You’re invited to bring old books, notebooks and papers that you love and want to keep, but think you really ought to part with.
Each workshop will take place in an artist’s studio. Limited to 4 students, it will be an intimate group setting with lots of personal attention. Perfect for all levels of creatives and art makers.
Session 1: June 16 - 17, 10 - 2 / This workshop is sold out
The first workshop will take place in Linda Clark Johnson’s Sacramento, CA studio. Located in the heart of town, Linda’s studio opens out onto a beautiful garden space where you can enjoy the company of birds, flowers, and bees.
Session 2: July 15 - 16, 10 - 2
The second workshop will take place in my Whidbey Island studio. Located on Useless Bay, my studio is surrounded by Douglas fir, walks to the Sound and a garden where you can relax, enjoy the local flora and gaze over at horses pasturing nearby.