To cheer you up.

The Amazon is burning.
....and Trump is a jerk.
But here are some flowers to cheer you up.
:)

Maud

Hey Maud..do you want me to keep hooking about you..or do you want to let sleeping dogs lie. A sign would be good. Love Laura

Hookers going to Church

Next Sunday a whole lot of hookers are going to be coming to this lovely church...and it ain't to repent. Congrats Remi Levesque..you had a cool idea and ran with it....more than 200 hooked cushions for the pews .. and nicely done hookers...and Happy 200th Birthday L'église historique de Barachois...see you there!
#workingtogether #artforruralNB #hookersrock #EglisehistoriquedeBarachois

Photo:  Don Lewis

Mine

When I was hooking this I was thinking about the times I have had "weird" things happen to me. This body is mine, so no, you can't squeeze past me tight in the kitchen with your wife in the next room....and no you can't hold me in a hug so I can't get free ..and no you can't sit right next to me on the bus and tell me you want to rub my feet......the list goes on....different times in my life..different men....this body is MINE.
#ishouldhavesaidsomethingatthetime

2019 NS FOLK ART FESTIVAL

So many great chats..sold a bunch of rugs..thank you!
Check out my facebook page for some puppies that didn't find homes.

I exist..the sign says so.

So cool.

It's so cool when a gallery contacts you and wants to represent you.
Feeling grateful.
Stay tuned.

Me

Fashion Inspiring Art

I bought this dress the other day..on a whim.
I love the colours.
So.
I made a hooked version.
Why?
Because my brain is hurting from politics and this is all I can handle at the moment.
That's why.

More chat about Maud.

Yo Maud ..they are chatting about you again.

Milroy is saying, "But if she was really only making paintings for sale, if she was really just cranking them out, she wouldn’t have made so many changes..."

I dunno...maybe you just changed it up a wee bit as you were bored as hell with the cats and oxen etc.
They don't want to believe that you just did it for the money or because Ev told you to...that kinda talk doesn't work in the art world.

But hey, we just make the stuff and let others chitter chatter about it, eh Maud?

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2019/07/10/why-maud-lewiss-colourful-paintings-belong-in-an-art-gallery.html?fbclid=IwAR2v0hJLvdqprNNVLxft1j2MHaEteCu5Iwb9BRWavVOJvFb2w_Rwhwi2iS

Maud...another book about you.

Another book out on Maud Lewis. This one claiming her life has been discussed more than her art...hmmmm, I don't think so..I think not enough has been made of her life. I think her hard life has been glossed over in order to sell pretty Maud cups and bags...and pencils.

" Until now, the story of her difficult life has dominated the discussion of her art: her triumph over her physical disabilities and poverty, the harsh treatment she received at the hands of her family, and her alliance by chance with her husband Everett Lewis, who enabled her successful painting career over many decades."

Sarah Milroy

Enabled her successful painting career? I don't know, according to Woolaver, Everett forced Maud to paint. Like the movie Maudie, people really want to believe there was some sort of love or great partnership between Maud and Ev when there is plenty of evidence that says otherwise....if only Maud were alive to ask...but even then, would she tell the truth.

https://shop.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca/collections/all/products/paintings-for-sale-maud-lewis?fbclid=IwAR0_YQQCZZBmGiucRJiQUE7aWyYknsx9IkGEMCpP6VxlSGPmTPApmn3zrUw

The cover of this book,

Paintings for Sale

reminded me of a rug I had made...."The Other Sign". In chatting with Lance Woolaver , he talked about a sign Maud had made for the poor house, her neighbours.

My obsession with Maud continues.

Hooking in the Heat

#hothooker
:)

Dinner time at Adam and Eves.

Yo Eve, what's for dinner?
I am coming, hold your horses Adam.

Gonna be demo-ing..come on by.

I 'll be demo-ing hooking July 13th, 10-11 am at this..please come by. Will also have some rugs for you to take a peak at...see you there...don't be a square. :)