2009 September : Jill Berry Blog

This week I received emails from two of the women in last week’s workshop in San Diego who had taken their books home and finished them. WOW! Jan and Noël, here you go, me showing you off big time.
I gave each participant a bunch of symbolic languages (some African, which you see here) work with, [...]

Borrego

Posted on September 28, 2009 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Last week I went to San Diego to teach and arrived a day early to head out to the Borrego desert to see my friend Carol, who lost her house and everything in it in the fires two years ago. Carol is a painter, a dog-lover and a great tour guide. She showed me the [...]

Found

Posted on September 14, 2009 - Filed Under What I am up to | 6 Comments

I am getting ready for a class in San Diego, actually two classes, and can’t get my act together at all. I am usually ready far ahead of time, but this week, and last, have been mightily distracting. In the interest of art, cartography and paint, I created this piece of paste paper, which to [...]

Artfest 2010

Posted on September 7, 2009 - Filed Under 2010 Workshops | 1 Comment

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Lost

Posted on September 3, 2009 - Filed Under Visual Inspiration, What I am up to | 9 Comments

I am not finding my way in any real sense this week. My husband lost his job, the fourth in recent years, the rejection notices are coming in, and right now, I feel beaten up. It won’t last, and it won’t kill me, but I am definitely on a path I want to get off [...]