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Every landscape tells a story. As an artist, I work to make this story legible. Every place is a result of natural processes acting through deep, geological time, with human processes on top. A background in geology and geography shows me landscapes in ways that are frequently hidden. I use fabric and thread to build cartography, integrating the science of the data with the tactile aspects and implied comfort of fabric.

All my representational work is firmly rooted in specific locations, and explores the landforms that currently exist, and the ways they change through time. The places that speak loudest to me are those where water is acting on the landscape, especially through rivers and coastal processes. With new tools and experience, my work showing these effects has shifted from landscapes rendered in fabric and stitch, through experimental fiber cartography, to 3D hybrid constructs using a variety of media.

My work can be seen at Sawmill River Artisan Gallery in Montague, Massachusetts, at True North Gallery in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and annually at the Crane Estate Art Show and Sale to benefit the Trustees of Reservations, in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

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      1. Hi Lee! Nice to hear from you so promptly. Thank you. I love the horse pieces, so any one of them or several would be wonderful. I was hoping for fairly large prints, at least 8×10 inches, but possibly 16×20.
        Have we met? How do you know my riding? I love photography too! You may have already noticed that. Haha…

        Thanks again, Cindy

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      2. Hi Cindy – I audited some of the clinics you’ve done at Cado Farm in Pelham, MA and Xenophon in Montague MA.

        8×10″ reproductions are $20, 16×20″ are $65, prints are shipped rolled in heavy-duty tubes to protect them.

        The horse pieces are not standard sizes, so they need to be trimmed after printing. The prints are enlarged to fit the longest dimension of the piece to the paper.

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    1. Hi , This is your cousin Sarah. What beautiful work you are doing. I am particularly fond of the rivers ..
      Now that you are a partner in the Thomson farm I think you should have a creek named after you. And I’ll send you an aerial photo of the farm Showing the main Creek and the little side creeks. The creeks with springs, and there are several of them, have water all year, even during droughts and are favorites of the animals.
      What are you working on this summer? SEP

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  5. Oh, so lovely and inspiring. My friend Amanda G recommended that I look at your work, and I sure am glad she did. How do you get those amazing gradations of colors on fabric? I do it on watercolor paper, but hugely admire your color relationships, textures, and the ways that you use the quilting to add depth, richness, cultural continuity, and your own designs. Wow. Thank you for making artwork.

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  6. Hi Lee! Today I received your ‚dragoman‘ canvas! I got so excited! Its Great! But now I am kind of curious which one of my two canvases YOU got in return? We were SWAPPED together! At least, finally, we both find our canvases on the same page of the ‚Visual Encyclopedia‘! Your canvas now stays in Germany.

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    1. Hi Thomas! I have Gallus – a truly stunning rooster, with French flag edges, I like it a lot, it looks like a rooster at a barn where I worked! Your rooster is in Massachusetts, overlooking a big river.

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  7. Very intriguing. I love the subtlety of it. Inside, I envy having a machine capable of such stitching without me pulling out my hair in the attempt. 🙂

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      1. I’ve heard you need a special foot on your machine. To be honest, I rarely use the machine as most of my sewing is by hand

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