Lucie Summers (UK)
It's always nice receiving email that further confirms why blogs are so important -- they so often serve as that all important link to connect people, and in this case, connecting UK artist Lucie Summers with Nahcotta, a wonderful art gallery and home decor showroom located in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
"I'm a mixed media artist and I thought you'd be interested to know that I submitted my work into the 'Enormous Tiny Art Show' at Nahcotta after you blogged about a call for submissions a while back. Well, excitingly, I got in! I thought you might like a little peek at the work I've made for it -- eight mixed media collages/paper quilts based on some school books of mine that I recently rediscovered, all have snippets of the stories and pictures I wrote and drew when I was 5 or 6 years old. Each are named after the silly things I wrote about, such as the day my teacher was sick, 'Poorly Mrs. Morley'; and the stories I created, 'Once upon a time I found a key'. I thought you would be interested in a follow-up to something you have already written about, and thanks to you I'm about to be showing my work in another country, so thank you so much for that! :)" - Lucie Summers
If you'd like to learn more about Lucie and her art, visit her blog called Blu Shed or see some of her works for sale over at Not on the High Street.
(travel tip: If you're in NH anytime soon, you can't miss Portsmouth, it's a charming port city with delightful stores, cafes, and many historical buildings. Truly a typical New England charmer and a great stop if you're heading up to coastal Maine. It's about an hour north of Boston.)
(images from lucie summers)