Kay West

My friend Kay is very creative!  She has loads of talent and for many years she has inspired me to keep pushing my creative boundaries.  Thanks Kay!!!!  Kay takes incredible photography.  She snaps photos of what I call “moments in time.”  Her photos remind me that I need to take the time to really look at my world not just walk through it blindly.  Weeds next to a fence become art through her lens.  Tree bark becomes a study in texture and movement.  Lines on asphalt become contemporary art.  I love her sunsets!!!  She snaps pictures of things we would like to keep in a file in our mind forever if we could.  :o]  This year she has challenged herself to post a least one picture a day for EVERY day this year.  She calls it “Project 365.”  I look forward to seeing her daily photos.  I never know what she will see through her lens each day. You can see her Project 365 here: www.kweststudio8.blogspot.com   You can see other photos of Kay’s here:   www.kweststudio8.Etsy.com Kay is also a wonderful jewelry designer and a painter.  Her beautiful jewelry can be seen on Esty.  Check them out!  She is really talented.   www.Birchbaykay.Esty.com

 Marleen Engeler

 Have you ever met  someone who seems so much like you that you call them a “Spirit Twin?”  I met one years ago at an art show in New York City.  We accidentally met in a crowd around her artwork.  I thought it was interesting that her work looked a lot like mine!  When I showed her mine she agreed.  Like twins though we each had just a little difference … but over all our worked looked very similar.  Through the years we have learned to laugh at the similarities in our lives.  Marleen lives in The Netherlands and I live in California but we stay in very close contact.  Marleen is very talented; she sews; she sings in an opera group; she GARDENS; she is a wonderful grandmother; she sculpts; she teaches; she cares for others; she travels; she paints.

Recently, she has started painting again … just like me.  Her paintings are different from mine but we found it interesting once again that we started to doing the same thing without telling each other.  Twins again!!!

This is a painting she did recently.  Isn’t Jonah adorable?  Don’t you just want to play in the sand with him???  Marleen is so talented!!!!  I love her to pieces!!!!!

On top of all the things Marleen does she also collects rocks for me during her travels to interesting places.  Thank goodness she gets to travel a lot.  Now I have rocks from places I only dream about visiting someday.  What a good friend she is to send rocks from Europe so I can use them in my artwork.  Marleen I adore you!!!!  Holland is too far away!!!  Twins forever!