Carol Wiebe

I am teaching two classes this summer: Open Book for the Altered Ego at Wellington County Museum (see page 3 of the brochure) and Stitched Paper Explorations at Southampton Art School & Gallery. I am passionate about working with paper. Its marvellous capacity to accept any mark making method I throw at it (sometimes literally), every stitch I take through it, every cut, tear, and fold I put into it, never fails to excite and delight me. I want to share that excitement with y

I am teaching two classes this summer: Open Book for the Altered Ego at Wellington County Museum (see page 3 of the brochure) and Stitched Paper Explorations at Southampton Art School & Gallery. I am passionate about working with paper. Its marvellous capacity to accept any mark making method I throw at it (sometimes literally), every stitch I take through it, every cut, tear, and fold I put into it, never fails to excite and delight me. I want to share that excitement with y

. You’ve been hoping, wishing, dreaming, visualizing about this for a very long time. Now you see an opening, and you suddenly have doubts. Don’t think yourself out of this. PLUNGE through that opening! An Opening The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. ……..~ Alan Watts #AlanWatts #dontthink #join #plunge #dreaming #wishing #dance #CWWOL20111217 #hoping #visualizing

There is an exquisite timing in creating art, like when you realize you must stop and allow those beautiful brushstrokes and textures to set in order to preserve them, even though your hands long to keep painting.  Even though you will be adding another layer, or another ten layers, later. The discipline of that is breathtaking, and empowering. You are able to hear the art tell you what it needs, and act in accordance with that. To listen. Or when you find the energy, the imp