everhope's Profile

Bio

I guess I have been making things forever, and I truly can't say which medium I like best unless you ask me which one I like best today. I'm so in love with color and all the fascinating ways it can be applied, manipulated and mixed...paint, glass, glaze, enamels, dyes, fibers, fabrics, yarns, threads, metals...all the same stuff. Really, I just love making tiny detail snapshots of a gloriously unique combination of colors...or shapes... forms... places...ideas...

It all began long before I can remember. I grew up on a sheep farm in the Kittatinny Mountains of New Jersey. My first painting (and a ton of others) is still hanging in my parents home. My first loom, which I used and abused at 5, is sitting, in all its plastic glory, in my attic. My first art lessons were by mail (remember the 'draw the guy on the matchbook cover ads?), before I was 10 and it snowballed from there.

Then, before I knew it, I was out of college, yeah, with a BFA degree...
"Art...what DO you Do with that ???, they asked"...(shrugs shoulders)... married the most patient man in the world, had five incredible children, and became the shepherdess of them and all the farm critters.

Everhope Farms was established in 1985 and while the gang was young and we were home schooling, our creativity expressed itself through crayons, blocks, cookies and an amazing number of crafts like weaving and spinning, knitting (things kids can't get hurt with.

Then, suddenly, they were almost all grown...

There are at least 100 wild and crazy two and four legged friends wandering around in the fields outside my windows.The smell of lavender in bloom is sooo nice outside my overstuffed (read..total chaos...disaster...only I can find things, sometimes) studio...a constant mess of beads and fused glass and stained glass, pastels and paints, and wool so much wool, from the sheep to the spinning wheel to the loom...yikes. Every day brings a slightly different twist.....maybe it has to do with what catches my eye on the top of the pile. :)

May I wax poetic?

It's a never-ending supply of information waiting to be assembled. Waiting for inspiration...the flow of the spirit....creative adrenaline..
I hope you enjoy the things here...and that they bring you life, love...joy and peace...there is ever...HOPE.

Female

Favorite Materials

glass, fibers, pastels