Paper Art Quilts by Mary Hambly

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Artist In Residence - June in Idaho

A unique and exciting opportunity has presented itself and I look forward with great anticipation to all that it offers. On May 30th I will leave Bloomington and travel to the Monastery of St. Gertrude, located outside of Cottonwood, Idaho. There I will participate in the life of this Benedictine Monastery as their Artist In Residence Volunteer for the month of June. For more information on this welcoming community, here is their web address: https://www.stgertrudes.org/

Following is a description of the opportunity from the Monastery website:

"The Artist Residency at St. Gertrude is a month-long opportunity for women visual artists, musicians and writers to spend time with their practices in a monastic setting amidst the Benedictine Sisters of Cottonwood, Idaho. You will live in the Monastery, joining the community in meals and other aspects of community life. You will be provided with studio space and your residency should conclude with an informal presentation of your work to the monastic community."

I will certainly be sharing this experience through words and images as it unfolds. I am grateful for the opportunity and the ways that life offers fascinating doors through which to enter enriching experiences. Stay tuned...

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Paper Art Quilts - A Variety

Below are a variety of available Paper Art Quilt designs:

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

2018 Holiday Art

2018 Bloomington Unitarian Universalist

Holiday Art Fair & Bazaar

2120 N Fee Lane, Bloomington, IN 47408

Sunday, August 26, 2018

August 2018 New

SOLD

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Dimensions: Unframed 12 W X 26 H

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Spring

Professionally framed: W 18 X H 28

Spring is sooner recognized

by plants than by men.

...Chinese Proverb

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Monday, March 26, 2018

Late Winter Storm

Professionally Framed - 15 W X 29 H

Late Winter storm

moves through a

mountain range.

Spring lurks

inside the mist.

Detail

Sunday, March 25, 2018

If You Keep

Professionally Framed - 13 W X 27 H

     If you keep a
          green bough in
               your heart,
                    the songbird will come.

                         ......Chinese Proverb


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Sunday, March 18, 2018

We chased the sunset...

Professionally framed 17H X 17W

....by Laurel Smith

We chased the sunset

     as if we were galloping

     together, as if

a shadow could live as long

as stone or a day in love.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Moon and Water

...by Mary Oliver

Professionally Framed: W 17 X H 29

I wake and spend
the last hours
of darkness
with no one

but the moon.
She listens
to my complaints
like the good

companion she is
and comforts me surely
with her light.
But she, like everyone,

has her own life.
So finally I understand
that she has turned away,
is no longer listening.

She wants me
to refold myself
into my own life.
And, bending close,

as we all dream of doing,
she rows with her white arms
through the dark water
which she adores.