It’s 25 July, and so far I have made art every day this month! Whether making cards welcoming, farewelling, or celebrating work colleagues, magnetic poetry inchies for swaps, or jewelery to benefit the library cats, I have spent part of every day in July making art.
It’s been enlivening, gratifying, and FUN!
It’s amazing how much time I can find for arting, when I’m truly committed. Oh, I’ve moaned and groaned about how terribly busy I am, and I am! But this one small commitment has changed my life, and so much for the better!
There’s less than a week left to my commitment to make art every day, but I sincerely hope that it has now become a habit, and that I will find myself continuing without the contract!
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About Me
- Nona
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Born into a family of artists, Nona McCarley Parry was not “the artistic one”. By age seventeen she realised she was not going to be a Leonardo or Michelangelo, and so gave up art. Art, however, did not give up Nona. After an abortive foray into academia (philosophy), and a successful decade in business (computers), Nona found herself in full-time employment as a commercial artist in New York City, all the while denying she had anything to do with ART. She undertook studies in drawing and painting at the Art Students League, alongside “real artists”, but did not exhibit due to her belief she was “not good enough”. When at age forty-eight Nona permitted herself to apply to art school, she was awarded a full scholarship. She broke her head and her heart learning to play again. She exhibited prints and paintings, drawings, and collages. An artist friend suggested she have a go at altered books, and in them Nona discovered a flexible and powerful format in which to bring all her beloved arts together. Nona McCarley Parry makes art in Wellington, New Zealand, and exhibits around the world.
1 comment:
Nona,
I was wondering if the library cats you mentioned in your post are listed on my Library Cats Map at http://www.ironfrog.com/librarycatsmap/nz.html. If not, could you please let me know the library to which you were referring? I'd like to add these cats to the list. Thanks!
Gary Roma
Iron Frog Productions
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