Hello Everyone!
I want to give you the “heads up” that I am heading to Corning, NY.
I will be teaching glassblowing/sculpting at the
Corning Museum of Glass
www.cmog.org
My showroom in Ojai will be open by appointment (805-646-4605) until April 16.
I have many earrings, solid core sculpture, and blown pieces.
I wanted to put this out especially to the people I think are wanting a piece, but putting it off…..
If you want the paintbrushes or earrings they are well stocked by Karin at Calais & Co
212-B E. Ojai Ave.
805-640-0994
After April 16 my favorite form of communication will be e-mail…pictures on this blog and you can always see me on facebook.
I thank you for every single word, thought, and action of support you have given me along the way. I am really looking forward to this next step.
Best to you,
Teal
Hello Everyone!
I am happy to invite you to come to the Ojai Museum this Sunday from 12-4 when I and the other glass artists in the show will be selling work.
A Bazar!
This is an indoor event…so Rain!
I will have earrings, brushes, and my latest in solid core sculpture available.
A portion of sales will benefit our museum.
Hope to see you there!
And I thank you for all of your support for the last 18 years that I have been working with glass.
Best,
Teal
P.S. The Glass Show will be up in museum until April 1…..a great opportunity to see the show too. I love this show! Glass in our Ojai Valley- don’t miss it!
Life
I dream a lot and often wake to the experience of wondering if a dream is real.
I woke thinking I was in a dream as a horse ran wildly. Hoof beats on the hard dirt and gravel road echoed off of the hillside. Crazy neighs I thought it were in my head. It seemed it had to be a dream until I sat up in bed and realized my senses were in tact.
Escaped, running back and forth, reverberating hoof sounds and squealing in and out of range. I could not ignore the spirit of this real live horse running itself ragged out on the road.
As my adrenaline pushed me out of bed to put on my boots I felt sure about going out to help this horse calm down. I didn’t have a plan. It was as if the spirit of the horse called me out there into the dark warm night in my boots with a rope in hand. For some reason the fear that I used to feel as a kid on my own horse, who happened to be a bit wild, just wasn’t there. It was “all systems go” to help this creature.
I set off down the road still hearing the disturbed calls. Getting closer I could now hear the horses winded breath in between it’s calls. And there on the hill stood the silhouetted beauty of this spirited creature. I saw it, it saw me at the same time. In the moment that we startled each other I put out my arm and the horse came running.
It seemed so relieved to see me. As I sensed it’s moist inhale in my hand, a flood of fear washed through my body. It seemed that the hugeness of this animal devoured my courage. It was as if the primal fear that I wanted to calm in it was transferred into me with it’s one breath in my palm.
Any idea of capturing the horse and preventing its running wild had flushed out with the flood of fear. I told the horse that I would find it’s owner and turned back to the house to phone.
I did not paint this. |
Just this last week, I ran into a friend of the owner of this horse. He said they had to put it down. “On Friday the thirteenth.”
The owner was saddling up while the horse got out from under the saddle. It ran off spooking from the saddle it was pulling behind itself. The horse fell off the cliff and was physically hurt beyond saving.
I feel sad for the loss of this life.
Altar Making Workshop
December 17 & 18 Saturday and Sunday
10:00 am to 3:00 pm in Ojai
805-646-4605
Want to set an intention in health, relationship, career, finance, home, or more for the future?
Want to commemorate a person, event, pet, or more from the past?
I will guide you by helping combine your intention with your creativity into the making of an altar. And….yes, you ARE creative!
I have many materials for you to use, as well as bring your own objects, symbols, ideas….and through a shared artistic experience you will create
your own meaningful piece of art.
$225.00 includes home made vegetarian lunch-
5 spaces left.
Let me know.
If not now, when?
Thank you to EVERYONE who made The Massive Annual Holiday Sale a complete success……I really appreciate all of your appreciation of my work. It is always so wonderful to come out of the artist isolation tank and see your beautiful faces and hear your beautiful voices……
Mom doing the drawing! |
The rain troopers |
Mom, Dianne Bennett Engle, Chris Engle……The people that are used to the weather of the north…..Freezing inside the house. |