Wedding Name Cards

These little cards were ordered by the bride and groom and used as gift tags for their special guests' favors.  Done on cream-colored archival cards with Italic lettering in a deep sienna.

St. Pat's Day Greeting

Lettering for a Printery House card.

What we know about our Irish heritage is very limited.  The great famine that sent many Irish immigrants to our US shores was not just the result of a potato blight.  " Thomas Gallagher points out in Paddy's Lament, that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported 17 million pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry -- food that could have prevented those deaths. Throughout the famine, as Gallagher notes, there was an abundance of food produced in Ireland, yet the landlords exported it to markets abroad. "

"More than a century and a half after the "Great Famine," we live with similar, perhaps even more glaring contradictions. Raj Patel opens his book, Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System: "Today, when we produce more food than ever before, more than one in ten people on Earth are hungry. The hunger of 800 million happens at the same time as another historical first: that they are outnumbered by the one billion people on this planet who are overweight." 

Read this article by Bill Bigelow in the Huffington Post here

Easter Greeting

Lettering for a Printery House card.  Brause pen and sumi ink.

Gladiolus Valentine

Watercolor and gouache. Done for a dear friend.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Everyone!

May the season bring each of us renewed life, and eyes more attuned to the beauty around us. May we care more generously for those around us.

And in the coming year may we enjoy new adventures, deep friendships, and greater joy. Life is good!

We shall see the sky sparkling

Pastel and gouache on paper. My favorite Checov quote.

"Welcome All Wonders" Christmas Card

This Christmas card is now available for purchase on my website in the "store"

The quotation is from Richard Crashaw. Inside is blank.

"Welcome all wonders in one sight

Eternity shut in a span

Summer in winter

Day in night

Heaven in earth

And God in man.

Great little one whose

All-embracing birth

Lifts earth to heaven

Stoops heaven to earth."