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About Me

I am a self taught outsider folk artist raising three boys from scratch, always in need of a roadie for art shows, who could use a couple extra hours built into every day. In true folk art tradition, I do not have a studio, making do instead with covering all the spare space in my bedroom with my vast collection of found objects, wood and a few basic tools. I try to keep the sawdust vacuumed up. The art I create is mostly crosses from found objects. I've made a few other pieces but it's the crosses that I keep returning to. I don't have a good reason for this. That's part of the journey I suppose and maybe when there's an answer, there won't be any more crosses. I assume I'm in the midst of some sort of spiritual crisis that I simply don't have the time to explore. I'm sorry to say, I have no affliction, addiction or hard luck story. I did have an epiphany once. I've shown at the Mennello Museum's Folk Fest, three Who-Fest's, at Arts in the Park in Lakeland, House of Blues in Orlando, Platform Florida, the Polk Museum, where two crosses have joined their permanent folk art collection, and I've donated artwork to the Project Life annual auction in Tampa. I want more than anything to show at Kentuck. Check out my website.
TAKE A PEEK AT MY CROSSES...
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My Interests

I have a sailboat now that I'm wanting to learn how to restore and then handle. Thanks to CJ and Mark of Southeast Boat Transport and Appraisal for their invaluable help! Folk art, outsider art, blues, football, hockey, fishing, reading, finding the answer to "why?", watching waves, enjoying the sun, savoring chocolate, exploring new places, cooking for someone who appreciates it. I'm partial to shiny things and rusty things and interesting things and people.

*THIS PICTURE IS LIFESIZE*SOLD*

I'd like to meet:

Patrons!!! Sponsors! Artists! Artists who work with found objects. People who've been to Burning Man. Anyone who wants to donate found objects. Interesting people with interesting ideas. People of imagination. Bono, John Irving, Johnny Depp, Jesse James of Monster Garage fame, Rick Bragg. My guardian angel. Cher. Alice Cooper. George Lowe. Tori Spelling. Really.

(THIS WAS A RACCOON. NOW IT'S AN ANGEL.)

(YEAH, THOSE ARE DENTAL MOLDS. THEY MAKE A NEAT FLOWER, HUH?)

(THIS IS ONE OF MY NEW FAVORITES)

Van Halen - Right Now
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Music:

YES, YES, YES!! Im all over the board. I've recently started listening to the new country music. You know, the country the country lovin' people are hatin' right now cause it sounds like pop. Taj Mahal, Janis Joplin, Uncle Kracker, Jack Johnson, Sister Hazel, Green Day, 80's hair bands, Johnny Lang, Omar and the Howlers, Bob Marley, Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffett and the list goes on.....

Movies:

I'm partial to improbable romantic comedies and anything quirky. Love Tim Burton's stuff.

*SAINTS & CIRCUTS*SOLD*

Television:

I still watch Sex and the City reruns on TBS. Miami Ink, half the stuff on Discovery Channel and TLC and VH1. House and Wife Swap.I had high hopes for Pushing Daisies which seems to have vanished with the writer's strike.

*MICHAEL'S INSTRUMENT AND A POT LID*SOLD*

Books:

I'll read anything that holds still long enough. Love Carl Hiassen, John Irving, Stephen King, Tim Dorsey. Again, I go for quirky. One of my favorite books is "Peter Pan" and you'd just have to read it as an adult to understand the appeal. Same with "Alice in Wonderland." I've reread "Gone with the Wind" several times, also C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" and "All over but the Shoutin'" by Rick Bragg.

*THE FIRST,AND SO FAR LAST, CRUCIFIX*

Heroes:

We all need more of these. My dad. Howard Finster. Rick Bragg's momma. Mother Theresa. Nando Parrado. Mark Zupan. Jimmy Carter. CJ who is probably shuddering right now being all next to Jimmy and all.

*THE LITTLE CUP HOLDS INCENSE*SOLD*

*SLOTH*SOLD*

My Blog

Miss Mary Finds A New Home

Seems Lakeland folk appreciate unique art more than those stuffy Winter Haven folk I turn out for Platform's Retrospective opening reception tonight about an hour and half into it and almo...
Posted by crossgirl on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:54:00 PST

They Scurry Amongst Us

Cue the creepy music. Danger stalks our parks. No sidewalk is safe. They walk, errr, scurry amongst us. Beneath their sweet little faces, behind their twinkling eyes, buried under layers of plush fur,...
Posted by crossgirl on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:23:00 PST

Not Quite a Hub Cap Diamond Star Halo. But Close

So. I haven't blogged in a long time because I haven't had much to say. Art has been on the back burner. No inspiration really, since the Adam/Eve/Snake piece although I did create a lovely tiara for ...
Posted by crossgirl on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:11:00 PST

Gifts

My little one and CJ went down to play in the creek a week or so ago and brought me back most of a fish skeleton. The head is very cool. There are still some scales attached although the head has sepa...
Posted by crossgirl on Fri, 30 May 2008 08:50:00 PST

Miss Mary Goes to The Big City

Okay, so Miss Mary, my raccoon headed doll, was accepted into high society as an entry in the juried Ridge Art Association's, Art From Found Objects show. She did not win a prize. But.... she was acce...
Posted by crossgirl on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:51:00 PST

A Question of Semantics? Or not?

Sooooooooooooo, it occurs to me last night as I'm manically working on my long neglected raccoon head-lawn statue doll. Or was that a possum head. It's kinda hard to tell at this point. It's rather we...
Posted by crossgirl on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:21:00 PST

Horrid houses and orange groves

I've been so busy. Such a good productive artist here lately. A house hunting trip with CJ netted all kinds of good cross material, all of it rusty and burnt as it was pulled from a burn pile, one of ...
Posted by crossgirl on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:28:00 PST

Horrid houses and orange groves

New Year, New Crosses

So it's been a sucky year so far. Nana died. Kid problems. Ex problems resulting in lawyer problems. Financial challenges. The usual stuff. I have managed to get back to work on the cross that I...
Posted by crossgirl on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:00 PST

Cutting Crosses

I was given an amazing box of Dremmel attachments for Christmas. It reminds me of the old Ronco commercials, it slices!, it dices!, it even cuts glass! I loves my Dremmel. I've been practicing cutting...
Posted by crossgirl on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST