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Lately, I’ve been living in close conversation with myself as an artist. Not as a separate part of me that I visit occasionally, but as a constant relationship I’m actively tending. At the tail end of winter, I found myself in a kind of involuntary pause with my art as I was held still with a seasonal sickness and all that recovering requires, while also mothering, working, and navigating the daily tasks of life. The lull didn’t feel like an absence of creative force though, it was more like an incubation- something gathering beneath the surface, waiting for the moment to engage. With the emergence of spring, I’ve been finding a fresh sense of being in rhythm with my creative process, listening and responding, letting curiosity lead. Inspiration has felt like a steady current I can step into. That current has been pulling me back into the cyanotype process with an excitement that I missed through those late winter days. I’ve been working on a new batch of prints on clothing, playing with printing in different shapes and designs on the clothes. It has been thrilling to watch each fabric hold the light after the sun exposes the gestures of each plant into something lasting, and water solidifies its final form. As I’ve been utilizing recent sunny days to make prints, the cyanotype process has been a regular conversation with the natural world, an exchange of form and memory, each print a unique story. (The two photos at the top are of a cyanotype printed on Elk rawhide, before and after rinsing). More examples of my cyanotype work, can be found on my website, including prints, shirts, throw pillows, and three sizes of zipper pouches. Other types of clothing will be posted soon, including jumpers, overalls, dresses, and more!   Alongside cyanotypes, I’ve recently completed a new painting (oil on canvas, 36“x36”), which I began just after my birthday last October. It’s one that I’ve been sitting with in a contemplative way, exploring my relationship with lineage and imprinting, as a daughter and a mother. I’ve been thinking about what we inherit from our mothers, in utero, because of their life experiences, and influences from generations before. How so much gets exchanged through the process of one body making another- physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, consciously and unconsciously, and likely in more ways than we might yet know. The unfolding of all those parts has struck me as a play of shadow and light, as there are difficulties and celebrations to honor in how we each transmute, transform, and grow into how we choose to live with the cellular memory we’re born with. I’ve titled it We Share Bones.  All of these manifestations of inspiration- printing, painting, experimenting, reflecting- feel connected right now. Like different voices answering from a core of willingness to meet an ever-changing spark. I’m feeling grateful for the sense of aliveness in the studio these days. For the reminder that making art can be a way of listening, participating, and meeting something as it emerges, allowing it to take form. Upcoming WorkshopsThe next BOOKMAKING class will be Saturday May 23rd, 10am-2pm. The next COLLAGE WORKSHOP will be June 13th, from 10am-1:30pm. We will continue with the theme of “coming to meet,” which the April workshop began to explore. You do not need to have attended April in order to join in June. For more about this theme please visit my newsletter archives and read the March entry, or visit my Workshops page.  Thanks for taking the time to read a bit about what I’ve been up to and some of the creations I’m excited to share. There will be much more as the year goes on, including bookmaking classes and cyanotype workshops, along with many opportunities to come explore your inner workings through collage. May you find your own creative spark, and follow its lead to welcome surprises! In joy & emergence, Lindsay 
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Coming to Meet: Tending the Past, Honoring the Present, Nourishing the Future  Tending our parts as a path towards thriving There is a hexagram in the I-Ching called Coming to Meet (Hexagram 44). It’s about recognizing a powerful encounter- a return, something arising that asks for awareness and discernment, the dark encountering the light. I’ve been thinking about Coming to Meet as way to frame how different parts of ourselves come forward at various thresholds or moments in our lives. So often, what comes to meet us is a younger part that may be tender, vigilant, protective- still remembering and representing unmet needs from earlier times. These parts learned how to survive, belong, achieve, stay safe- the list goes on. They developed strategies for survival that were intelligent and necessary at the time. As adults, we may feel those same strategies and constructs surfacing in ways that make sense from that younger perspective, but may not be completely accurate or useful, considering the life we currently lead, or want to. When we meet these parts with presence, offering compassion and patience, something softens. The adult self can recognize how to begin to offer what was missing- reassurance, boundaries, permission, rest, play, an ally. Something inside can reorganize so the past can loosen its grip. So, I’ve been thinking about approaches to meeting these younger parts creatively, with curiosity, in support of an evolved relationship with them. In my own creative process, through collage, I’ve begun a Guardian Series, to tend to these parts of me. The figures represent what, or who, I needed in the past that was missing, for any number of difficult circumstances. I’m giving those younger parts allies, protectors, a solid container to trust.  At the same time, Coming to Meet is not only about the past. The wellbeing of our future selves is shaped by what we choose to meet in the present. When we meet ourselves in this way, the past softens its grip, the present gains clarity, and the future becomes something we are consciously cultivating rather than bracing for. What is asking to be nourished now? What truth wants to be spoken? What support wants to be received? How can I show up for myself? What do I need today so that tomorrow feels spacious, internally and externally? Especially now, with so many heartbreaking and infuriating events taking place in our country, and the world, it’s so important to tend to ourselves so we can continue showing up for the greater good. Art can be a powerful way to explore this terrain. Through image, color, texture, and symbol, we bypass the well-rehearsed narratives and allow deeper layers to speak. I have found that collage, in particular, can reveal unexpected relationships between our younger parts, our present needs, and the self that is still becoming. My next collage workshops, Saturday March 28th, from 1-4pm, and Sunday April 26th, from 10am-1pm will hold elements on this theme of Coming to Meet, be it meeting something from the past, or tending to something asking to be met in your current life circumstances. The invitation will simply be to turn towards what surfaces. To listen for and nourish what is emerging. To become trustworthy to ourselves across time and participate actively in who we are becoming. Click here for more information, and to register CYANOTYPES ARE MYHAPPY PLACE ~ falling in love with Ranunculus
The cyanotype process is a quiet collaboration between light, water, and time. A simple solution of iron salts is brushed onto paper or fabric, creating a surface that waits in the dark for its moment with light. Objects, plants, or negatives are placed upon the treated surface and when light touches it, a transformation begins. What the light touches deepens the chemistry into a luminous blue, and where objects shield the surface, a pale silhouettes remains. With a rinse in water, the image emerges in the distinctive indigo tone known as Prussian blue. Each is an imprint of presence and absence, a record of shape and light. This winter I was charmed by a new flower in my collection of printing materials, the glorious and delicate Ranunculus! This plant has become the latest tribute to joy and wonder in this magical process I’ve been so enamored with since early last year. New canvas bags are available, featuring Ranunculus, as well as adult sized shirts. Other cyanotype inventory can be found here, including prints, kids sized shirts, throw pillows, and three sizes of zipper pouches. There are so many ways to infuse daily living with art! My online store is still in the “unofficial” works but if you see anything you like, just reach out and we can make it yours! Thanks for taking the time to read a bit about what I’ve been up to and some of the creations I’m excited to share. There will be much more as the year goes on, including bookmaking classes and cyanotype workshops, along with many opportunities to come explore your inner workings through collage. May you find your own creative spark, and follow its lead to welcome surprises! In joy & emergence, Lindsay  Welcoming the start of this year as a threshold for something new… What will emerge, as you? We are standing at a threshold between two powerful energies. 2025, the Year of the Snake, has asked us to slow down, listen inward, and shed what no longer fits. Snake energy has been about truths surfacing, the death of illusions, and shedding the versions of ourselves we’ve built for safety. It’s invited honesty- sometimes uncomfortable honesty- about where we have been living out of habit, protection, or expectation. It was the year of molting: endings, releasing old skins, old stories, old versions of self that once kept us safe but would continue holding us back, keeping us small, if we held on. There are parts of ourselves that we are not meant to reclaim. We have outgrown so much. As we move into 2026, the Year of the Horse, the energy shifts dramatically. Horse is courage, movement, new beginnings, momentum, freedom, and embodied vitality. The Horse asks us to live what we know- to let inner truth become visible through action, choice, and direction, into alignment. What is our purpose, what is our “yes?” It’s about stepping into a life your expired self could never have conceived of. To echo the comforting reassurance of what someone dear to me recently named, “a new normal is coming, and it’s going to be ok.” My upcoming collage workshop, Saturday, January 31, 11am-2pm lives right in the space between these two forces. This is not about reinvention for its own sake, nor about pushing forward before we’re ready. It’s about emergence. About learning how to inhabit your life in a revised way—one that honors personal truths that are deeper than the patterns you may be used to living from. Through collage, we will gently excavate what has been quietly revealed during this Snake year: the unspoken knowing, the desires beneath duty, the self that has been waiting for acknowledgment. Then, with care and intention, we’ll begin to give that truth form—so it can move, breathe, and eventually carry you forward with the clarity and strength of Horse energy. This workshop is for anyone feeling the tension between who they have been and who they are becoming. For anyone ready to stop circling the truth and begin living alongside it. For anyone who senses that a more honest, more embodied way of being is not only possible—but necessary. We shed. We listen. And then, when the time is right, we move. I’d love to have you join me in this moment of transition, where inner truth meets forward motion, and emergence becomes a lived experience. Click here for more information, and to register  CYANOTYPES ARE MY HAPPY PLACE I’ve wanted to get into cyanotypes for over 20 years. Half my major in college was photography, but I focused on traditional street photography instead of following my curiosity into alternative processes. Last year I decided it was time and I absolutely fell in love. The surprises with every exposure, the variations with the angle of the sun and the state of the various plants I harvest, my relationship with the plants and where they’re from, the gorgeous blue that magically appears when water meets the surface of whatever material I’ve used to make the print on. I can’t get enough, it’s so fun! I even got to teach a class to a private group of entrepreneurs at the Denver Botanic Gardens, with my dear friend and fellow artist, Matty Miller. I’ve begun creating a body of cyanotype work, some of which will be featured in a show I’ll be in, here in Lyons where I live, a year from now. I’ve also greatly enjoyed making wearable and usable art! From t-shirts and sweatshirts, to throw pillows, and pouches that are perfect for holding so many things, there are so many ways to infuse daily living with art! I’ve made these tributes to joy and wonder available to share, on my website. My online store is still in the works but if you see anything you like, just reach out and we can make it yours!
Thanks for taking the time to read a bit about what I’ve been up to and some of the creations I’m excited to share. There will be much more as the year goes on, including bookmaking classes and cyanotype workshops, along with many more opportunities to come explore your inner workings through collage. May you find your own creative spark, and follow its lead to welcome surprises! In joy & emergence, Lindsay  |
