Bunny Dearest – The Beginning
Bunny Dearest began when my mother and father both had serious health crises, and my family was thrown into action and reaction mode. It was a difficult period that was to eventually last 12 years. When it came time for my mother to leave her beloved home, cleaning the attic was a “rainbow of emotions,” and some of us didn’t handle it so easily. When a stuffed, worn out rabbit came down from the attic, in almost complete defeat, I picked it up and called it Bunny Dearest. She is a muse, a nemesis, a grouch and a character that keeps me company every now and then.
Book of Knowledge – Bunny Dearest on the The Nature of Art
This is a bit of commentary on the nature of art, art theory and art exercises as seen through the eyes of Bunny Dearest, the pedagogue. This is also the moment that I realized I had become Bunny Dearest.
Why i Did What i Do
This handmade book is my artist statement for the exhibition, "While I was Waiting..." It is constructed using my family's 1950 Book of Knowledge, other found papers, images I have designed and printed, and found objects. A simple Coptic stitch is used to bind the pages.

​The textile assemblages are constructed on vintage linens, embroidered using a single thread, beads, vintage trim, reconstructed silk flowers, acrylic and found objects. Many of the altered frames are vintage and incorporate glass mosaic. The collage works are various vintage and artist made papers.
One Armed Witch
The One Armed Witch was my sole companion while I prepared for spinal surgery in the very warm Tucson summer. She popped into my head one very early morning walking along the Juan Bautista De Anza Trail. In the ensuing two years, she continued to be a persistent presence. Creating the large book was a necessary step to begin to really know the One Armed Witch, and why she speaks to me. The over-sized book suggests how large things can look as child. And making the clothes and accessories was just as much fun as playing with dolls was so many years ago.

To realize these objects took many others and I am grateful for the help and support of so many people, from printing the book pages to turning a laughable cardboard  maquette into a real wardrobe. My granddaughter worked with me to make the clothes and accessories.
The One Armed Witch
Has Been Thinking
The One Armed Witch was my sole companion while I prepared for spinal surgery in the very warm Tucson summer. She popped into my head one very early morning walking along the Juan Bautista De Anza Trail. In the ensuing two years, she continued to be a persistent presence. Creating the large book was a necessary step to begin to really know the One Armed Witch, and why she speaks to me. The over-sized book suggests how large things can look as child. And making the clothes and accessories was just as much fun as playing with dolls was so many years ago.
To realize these objects took many others and I am grateful for the help and support of so many people, from printing the book pages to turning a laughable cardboard maquette into a real wardrobe. My granddaughter worked with me to make the clothes and accessories.
I Feel Special Most of The Time
Sometimes I just want to make pages that could fill a book with ideas, experiments and random thoughts. This is one of those books, an oversized sketchbook of a sorts. Almost all of my books are experiments that seem like a good idea at the time,
Diary of Things That
I Thought Mattered
This is one of those diaries that I add on to every now and then, usually collages. In a flurry, I create four or more pages that seem to be in a theme, tie them on to the back, then put it away until the next overwhelming urge to comment on society is too strong to resist.
The Temple of Tropes
This is a recent project, that comes from my abiding interest in words and the English language, not that I am a particularly accurate practitioner of that language. I was gifted a large box of Lady Godey Books, dating from 1860. A true treasure trove for me, so I let the collages begin. It was my hope that this zine not only be informative, cheeky and, dare I say, clever. TBD.
El Tuito - Thing I Thought About
I had the good fortune to spend several months in El Tuito, Jalisco, Mexico, helping a talented friend with a home improvement project, She is a ceramic artist, adept at making sculpture, and wanted to make pavement art in the entryway to her home. That was my speciality at one time in my career. This book has evolved from the little accordion fold pages I would do when waiting for the kiln to fire, the rain to stop, or otherwise find me sitting. Fortunately, I had taken odd bits of collage characters I had made from the wonderful Lady Godey Books. These pages have been reworked from those original little daily pages.
Available soon in print, 36 pages of ponderings! Email me for details.
Book of Knowledge -
The Mighty Tatanka
The cover of my Book of Knowledge series came from my parent’s home after the dramatic experience of cleaning the attic. I remember it vividly as my reference source, all the way through high school. Growing up in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, we saw a few buffalo, mainly kept as an attraction. This book is my way to honour the magnificent beast, even in its captivity. The demise of the buffalo and the People who depended upon it as a way of Life is a sad story.
A Strange Manuscript in a Wooden Box
This altered book is presented out of respect to James de Mille’s book, A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, 1888. It was a wonderful adventure story in keeping with the fantastical adventures of the times by Jules Verne and Rider Haggard. My book is a somewhat dystopian love story, tinged with humor and paradox, using my original art and text, collage, objects, mixed media and selected text of the original book