– M.C. Richards
Texture is a Bug – 2.5″ x 3.5″ Mixed Media Painting
This little bug is done on a small ATC sized canvas. The legs are string, the body is spackle and the wings are spackle and cheesecloth. All of it is painted with acrylic. What I ended up with is a painting a little boy might like.
I am inspired so much by mixed media artists, yet I rarely dig in and play. This was done quite a while ago and even though it is quite ugly, it makes me want to try it again.
M.C. Richards
Artist & Philosopher (1916-1999)
Mary Caroline Richards had a richly diverse life, which began in Weiser, Idaho on July 13, 1916. She was raised in Portland, Oregon and later went to Reed College to earn a degree in literature and languages. She wrote poetry, and when she became part of the faculty at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, she taught writing and produced plays. At Black Mountain she also danced, studied pottery, and became increasingly interested in innovative teaching methods. She helped create a commune in New York in the 1950s, taught and gave pottery workshops in the 1960s, and later worked in Camphill Village in Pennsylvania, an alternative educational community based on the teachings of Rudolph Steiner. In the last decade of her life she began to paint as naturally as if she had been doing so her whole life. Her art-of-many-genres wove together all her concerns, including community, agriculture, craft itself, and spiritual ideas. Always a poet, she regarded the end of her life – as physically limiting as it was – as another fulfilling adventure, “living toward dying, blooming into invisibility.”
- Margaret Wakeley
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