Color Consultant working with clients on interiors and exterior paint projects. Visual Artist. Writer/Author. ChoosingPaintColor.com BarbaraMayfield.com
23/March/2020 Southeastern Pennsylvania. Montgomery County. The fridge is clean. The spices are sorted and arranged aesthetically. Cool weather crops are planted in the flower pots. I’ve bookmarked YouTube videos on gentle yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, and Zumba. Any minute I’ll start them, probably right after I become fluent in French and Italian via the free … More Pandemic Diary: The Spices are Sorted / mayfield
The class began in January. We met for six Tuesday mornings from 10 til noon at Main Line Art Center (MLAC)in Haverford in Pennsylvania, about 10 miles from the Liberty Bell. This was the first literary arts class the MLAC has ever booked! Am so glad they were game to add the craft of writing … More Memoir Writing Course- a memoir of the Winter Session 2019
Greetings Friends, Colleagues, Clients, I’m bringing my Memoir Writing course to my studio at the Norristown Arts Building starting Tuesday, March 19. Studio 12B is a large, sunny, warm, first floor space with floor to ceiling windows. There is free parking in the fenced parking lot, and it’s handicapped accessible; a few blocks off of … More Spring Session 6-week Memoir Writing Course starts Tues. 3/19/19
A few months ago, I moved my art supplies into a new studio. There are 22 studio spaces carved out in this old brick building and more than 22 artists and craftspersons. The building was, originally, a costume factory. It has been a good move. Tall factory windows face east and south so the place … More Studio Notes #1
I took on this large plot of ground at a Community Garden last Spring. Here’s the garden gate and, behind it, please note the tall, tall mugwort, burdock, thistle, and other plants whose names I do not know. The garden neighbors told me it had been the garden of a Polish man who’d moved away … More Reclaiming an old and wildly overgrown garden
So many ways to express oneself and make beauty! Earth art happens in The Magical Mrs. Iptweet and Me, so I’ll be posting on this topic from time to time. Here’s one for our friends in the Southern Hemisphere, whose wintertime is just getting started….. Photos of Snow Art by Simon Beck are here and … More Snow Art
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