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Mother and Daughter Photographers Share Their Love of Art at the Guild's Spring

Bronwyn Olsen and her mother, Diana Jorgenson, share more than a close, trusting relationship. They have been making art together for their entire lives, as did Diana and her own mother. “My mother was my teacher,” Jorgenson said. “I spent most of my childhood drawing.”

The mother-daughter team of Olsen and Jorgenson will show their photography and crystal window hangings Sunday, May 29, at the Mohawk Valley Artists Guild’s annual Spring Arts and Craft Fair. The juried show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Graeagle Fire Hall, on Highway 89.

Olsen’s specialty is true-to-life photography. Jorgenson is more eclectic in her art skills: “I’ve always done two – three types of art at one time.” Olsen commented, “She’s always changing, doing something different.”

“That’s what art is about,” replied Jorgenson. “Reinventing everything!”

Jorgenson’s gift of picture perfect drawing, perhaps the result of her ability to pay close attention to detail, transferred to her photography in college at the University of Minnesota College when she got her first camera. The camera went everywhere with Jorgenson for years, but she was also doing porcelain, oil and watercolor, wood inlay, Ukrainian eggs, bead-woven earrings, pen and ink, colored pencils, even dance. Oil was her favorite.

Olsen offered that oil is where her mother has done her best work. Sadly, her paintings have all been distributed, except for a few family treasures. Although oil painting was a gratifying practice, having a family motivated Jorgensen to switch back to her original art form, drawing — this time, with colored pencils. It was something she could do more readily alongside her children. “It’s fun having art that you can do with your kids. It’s play!”

The 1997 flood was the force that moved Jorgenson to take up crystal window hangings. During evacuation from her home, she lost a wealth of beading supplies. The idea of sorting through a thousand dollars’ worth of tiny muddy beads was heartbreaking. So she switched to bigger beads – crystals.

“Building up a large enough inventory of beads and crystals takes time.” But it paid off. In her current home, a curtain of crystal hangings sparkle across a window. Prismatic colors and warmth fill the room with gentle motion and otherworldly light.

Let your creativity grow!: Bird of a feather card class-- Friday ...

And finally this card is one of my favorites.  It uses new stamps by hero arts.  I punched out the penant flags and wrote in the word nest.  The flag punch is by Marvy and it punches out these triangles.  too cool!  i used smooch ink to color in the middle of the flower and hot pink ribbon on the side of thecard.  The flowers were stamped in brilliance ink black and the birds were stamped in the lighter black by brilliance.  i punched out a crown for one of the birds and added a little gemstone to the eye to give it more charm.  hope to see you this friday!

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